Massimiliano Guido
In recent years scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods This historically informed practice is now supplanting the late Romantic view of improvised music as a rhapsodic endeavour a musical blossoming out of the capricious genius of the player that dominated throughout the twentieth century In the Renaissance and Baroque eras composing in the mind alla mente had an important didactic function For several categories of musicians the teaching of counterpoint happened almost entirely through practice on their own instruments This volume offers the first systematic exploration of the close relationship among improvisation music theory and practical musicianship from late Renaissance into the Baroque era It is not a historical survey per se but rather aims to re establish the importance of such a combination as a pedagogical tool for a better understanding of the musical idioms of these periods The authors are concerned with the transferral of historical practices to the modern classroom discussing new ways of revitalising the study and appreciation of early music The relevance and utility of such an improvisation based approach also changes our understanding of the balance between theoretical and practical sources in the primary literature as well as the concept of music theory itself Alongside a word centred theoretical tradition in which rules are described in verbiage and enriched by musical examples we are rediscovering the importance of a music centred tradition especially in Spain and Italy where the music stands alone and the learner must distil the rules by learning and playing the music Throughout its various sections the volume explores the path of improvisation from theory to practice and back again Studies in Historical Improvisation From Cantare super Librum to Partimenti.
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Studies in Historical Improvisation: From Cantare super Librum to Partimenti By Massimiliano Guido |
131704892X |
9781317048923 |
English |
214 |
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