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Improvisation and inventio in the performance of medieval music : a practical approach / Angela Mariani.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML172 .M366 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mariani, Angela (Mariani Smith), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Performance--History--500-1400.
- Music.
- Improvisation (Music)--History--500-1400.
- Improvisation (Music).
- Music--Performance.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 232 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Renowned performer and scholar Angela Mariani rediscovers and eluci dates the improvisatory practices that energized medieval music in its own time and again in its modern revival, providing philosophical frameworks and practical exercises for contemporary instrumentalists and vocalists. This innovative guide explores musical models, the implications of medieval notation, and the ways in which memory, mode, rhetoric, and primary sources inform the improvisatory process in minophonic and polyphonic music of the Middle Ages. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Process of Inventio 1
- 2 Living and "Imagined" Models: A New Oral Tradition 15
- 3 Notation and Memoria: What's Not on the Page 28
- 4 Mode: The Vocabulary of Melody 56
- 5 Inventing Melody: Old Instruments, New Voices 88
- 6 Inventing Organum: Memoria and Formula 134
- 7 Playing Poetry: The Rhetoric of Invention 157
- 8 The Long Memory: A Reflection on Teaching Medieval Music 191.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190631185
- 019063118X
- 9780190631178
- 0190631171
- OCLC:
- 963230967
- Publisher Number:
- 99974184208
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