Musical improvisation and open forms in the age of Beethoven / edited by Gianmario Borio and Angela Carone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borio, Gianmario, editor, author.

Carone, Angela, 1976- editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Improvisation (Music)--History--19th century.

Improvisation (Music).

Musical form--History--19th century.

Musical form.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 243 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Contents:

Formal elements of instrumental improvisation: evidence from written documentation, 1770-1840 / Angela Carone

Musical form in improvisation treatises in the age of Beethoven / Jan Philipp Sprick

"La solita cadenza"?: vocal improvisation, embellishments and fioriture in opera from the late eighteenth to the first half of the ninetheenth century / Torsten Mario Augenstein

"Free forms" in German music theory and the Romantic conception of time / Gianmario Borio

Fantastical forms: formal functionality in improvisational genres of the Classical era / William E. Caplin

Four piano fantasias by Hummel: improvisation, motivic processing, harmonic enterprise and the "memory function" / Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald

A step to the "Wanderer": Schubert's early Fantasia-Sonata in C minor (D. 48) / Pieter Bergé

Didacticism and display in the capriccio and prelude for violin, 1785-1840 / Catherine Coppola

"Quasi una fantasia"?: the legacy of improvisational practice in Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas / Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen

Improvisation practices in Beethoven's Kleinere Stücke / Marco Targa

The fate of the antepenultimate: fantasy and closure in the Classical style / Scott Burnham

"Ad arbitrio dei cantanti": vocal cadenzas and ornamentation in early nineteenth-century opera / Giorgio Pagannone.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138222960

1138222968

OCLC:

1002722536

Publisher Number:

99976084814