Beyond notes : improvisation in Western music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / edited by Rudolf Rasch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rasch, Rudolf, 1945-

Series:

Speculum musicae ; v. 16.

Speculum musicae ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Improvisation (Music).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 387 pages : illustrations, music ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2011]

Summary:

Musicologists look at the theory and practice of improvisation in the 18th century then progress through keyboard instruments, bowed strings, and vocal music of the 19th century. Among their topics are improvisations between imagination and oration in the 18th century, harmonic patterns and melodic paraphrases in 18th-century Portuguese music for the five-string guitar, Clara Wieck Schumann's improvisations and her mosaics of small forms, how to face improvisatory elements in 19th-century Hungarian popular music, and 19th-century vocal improvisation and the flute-accompanied cadenza in Gaetano Donizette's Lucia di Lammermoor. Six of the 20 chapters are in Italian. Only names are indexed. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Preface

The Eighteenth Century : theory. The volatility of musical composition / Rudolf Rasch. The "Fantasy prinviple." Improvisation between imagination and oration in the Eighteenth Century / Martin Kaltenecker. Testimonianze sulla prassi improvvisativa dei musicisti italiani tra Sette e Ottocento / Carmela Bongiovanni. "L'orecchio più che 'l tempo dee servire di guida." L'improvvisazione nella trattatistica italiana del secondo Settecento / Mariateresa Dellborra

The Eighteenth Century : practice. Harmonic patterns and melodic paraphrases in Eighteenth-Century Portuguese music for the five-course guitar / Rogério Budasz. Formule e improvvisazione nei recitativi delle Cantate di Alessandro Scarlatti / Simone Ciolfi. Natura e arte nell'improvvisazione di Giuseppe Tartini / Gregorio Carraro. "Cet art est la perfection du talent" Chordal thoroughbass realization and improvised solo performance on the viol and cello in the Eighteenth Century

The Nineteenth Century : keyboard instruments. Improvisation into composition. The first movement of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Sonata in F-sharp minor, op.81 / Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald. Clara Wieck Schumann's improvisations and her 'Mosaics' of small forms / Valerie Woodring Goertzen. Cadenza improvisation in Nineteenth-Century solo piano music according to Czerny, Liszt and their contemporaries / Martin Edin. Practical improvisation. The art of Louis Vierne / Steven Young

The Nineteenth Century : bowed strings. Paganini's virtuosity and improvisatory style / Philippe Borer. Charles-Auguste de Bériot e l'improvvisazione virtuosistica per violino / Renato Ricco. The advantages and drawbacks of notation, or how to face improvisatory elements in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian popular music / Csilla Pethő-Vernet

The Nineteenth Century : vocal music. Improvvisazione e ornamentazione nell'opera francese e italiana di primo Ottocento / Damien Colas

"Abbellimenti o fioriture." Further evidence of creative embellishment in and beyond the Rossinian repertoire / Laura Moeckli. Manacled freedom. Nineteenth-Century vocal improvisation and the flute-accompanied cadenza in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor / Naomi Matsumoto. Improvvisazione popolare e urbana a Napoli nel primo Ottocento Dai canti del molo a "Io te voglio bene assaje" / Raffaele Di Maura. ...And to end with. "Ghost notes." Issues of inaudible improvisations.

Notes:

International conference proceedings.

Includes index.

13 English, 7 Italian contributions.

ISBN:

9782503542447

2503542441

OCLC:

754708000