Studies in Historical Improvisation: From Cantare super Librum to Partimenti
- Author: Guido, Massimiliano
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Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- part I 'con la mente e con le mani': Music and the art of memory
- 1 The Improvisatory Moment
- Thomas Christensen
- 2 Musical Inventio, Rhetorical Loci, and the Art of Memory
- Stefano Lorenzetti
- 3 Climbing the Stairs of the Memory Palace: Gestures at the Keyboard for a Flexible Mind
- Massimiliano Guido
- part II Improvising vocal Music
- 4 Towards a Stylistic History of 'Cantare super Librum'
- Philippe Canguilhem
- 5 Contrapunto and Fabordon: Practices of Extempore Polyphony in Renaissance Spain
- Giuseppe Fiorentino
- 6 Discovering the Practice of Improvised Counterpoint
- Jean-Yves Haymoz
- part III Improvising Keyboard Music
- 7 Composing at the Keyboard: Banchieri and Spiridion, Two Complementary Methods
- Edoardo Bellotti
- 8 Partimento Teaching According to Francesco Durante, Investigated Through the Earliest Manuscript Sources
- Peter van Tour
- 9 Partimento and Incomplete Notations in Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music
- Giorgio Sanguinetti
- part IV Nova et vetera: Pedagogy
- 10 Teaching Theory Through Improvisation
- Peter Schubert
- 11 Learning Tonal Counterpoint Through Keyboard Improvisation in the Twenty-First Century
- Michael R. Callahan
- Bibliography
- Index