| Description |
xvi, 405 pages : illustrations, music ; 27 cm. |
| Series |
Speculum musicae ; volume XXXIII
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Speculum musicae ; v. 33.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This volume aims to investigate the role and forms of improvisation in Baroque music. In the Baroque period there is a large discrepancy between sound entity and musical notation. In a context where the musical tradition, handwritten and printed, at times suggests the possible execution of a passage, at times indicates a specific mode of execution often adapted by the ability of the performer or the musical occasion, the margin for improvisation is wide. The in-depth and possibly comparative study of musical sources, their historical contextualization, their evaluation on the basis of documentary and theoretical testimonies, allows us to shed light on the real aural rendering of the synthetic written page. This volume aims to investigate the role and forms of improvisation in Baroque music under many of its multifaceted aspects, in a study that will define the links between creative process and executive practice. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Fulvia Morabito -- Improvisation into composition: French harpsichord doubles and the creative art of the 17th-century clavecinistes / David Chung. Sounding theory and theoretical notes : Bernardo Pasquini's pedagogy at the keyboard : a case of composition in performance? / Massimiliano Guido. Las anotaciones de Pisendel en el Concierto para dos violines RV 507 de Vivaldi : una ventana abierta a la improvisación en la obra del "Cura rojo" / Javier Lupiañez, Fabrizio Ammetto. Cadenze per finali : exuberant and extended cadences in the 16th and 17th centuries / Josué Meléndez Peláez. Written outlines of improvisation procedures in music publications of the early 17th century : the second (1611-1623) and third (1615-1623) book of Concerti by G. Ghizzolo and the motet Iesu Rex admirabilis (1625-1627) by G. Frescobaldi / Marina Toffetti -- Issues of performance practice: "Il n'exécute jamais la Basse telle qu'elle est écrite" : the use of improvisation in teaching low strings / Giovanna Barbati. On the borderlines of improvisation : Caccini, Monteverdi and the freedoms of the performer / Anthony Pryer. "Sostener si può la battuta, etiandio in aria" : testi e contesti per comprendere l'invenzione e la disposizione del discorso musicale nel repertorio strumentale italiano fra Seicento e Settecento / Laura Toffetti. Improvised cadenzas in the Cello sonatas op. 5 by Francesco Geminiani / Rudolf Rasch -- Contemporary treatises, pedagogical works, and aesthetics: Il mito della competizione tra virtuosi : quando Farinelli sfidò Bernacchi (Bologna 1727) / Valentina Anzani. Re-creating historical improvisatory solo practices on the cello : C. Simpson, F. Niedt, and J.S. Bach on the pedagogy of Contrapunctis extemporalis / John Lutterman. Accompagnamento e basso continuo alla chitarra spagnola : una cartografia della diffusione dei sistemi di notazione stenografici in Italia, Spagna e Francia tra XVI e XVII secolo e loro implicazioni teoriche / Francesca Mignogna. Naturalezza o artificio : riflesssioni su improvvisazione e virtuosismo italiani in Francia nel Settecento / Guido Olivieri. "Adagio de Mr. Tartini. Varié de plusieurs façons différentes, très utiles aux personnes qui veulent apprendre à faire des traits sous chaque notte de l'Harmonie..." / Neal Zaslaw -- The art of partimento: Cantata da camera e arte del partimento in Alessandro Scarlatti : "an historical link between Baroque recitatives and development section of the sonata-form movements?" / Simone Ciolfi. Two new sources for the study of early eighteenth-century composition and improvisation / Marco Pollaci. On the origin of partimento : a recently discovered manuscript of toccate (1695) by Francesco Mancini / Giorgio Sanguinetti. "Taking a walk at the molo" : partimento and the improvised fugue / Peter van Tour. |
| Language |
Articles in English, Italian, and Spanish. |
| Subject |
Improvisation (Music) -- History -- 17th century.
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Improvisation (Music) |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Music -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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Improvisation (Musique) -- Histoire -- 17e siècle. |
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Music. |
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Musique -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Morabito, Fulvia, editor.
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| ISBN |
9782503583693 (hardcover) |
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2503583695 (hardcover) |
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