Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Rasch, Rudolf 1945- (Turnhout Brepols, 2011)
To begin with. The volatility of musical composition / Rudolf Rasch -- The Eighteenth Century : theory. The "Fantasy principle" : 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 Dellaborra -- 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 / John Lutterman -- 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 -- 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 Möckli -- 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 Mauro -- And to end with. "Ghost notes" : issues of inaudible improvisations / Vincenzo Caporaletti
Papers originally presented at an international conference held in La Spezia, Italy, July 15-17, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
13 English, 7 Italian contributions with English summaries.
Keywords: Scarlatti, Alessandro -- 1660-1725; Tartini, Giuseppe -- 1692-1770; Hummel, Johann Nepomuk -- 1778-1837; Paganini, Niccolò -- 1782-1840; Czerny, Carl -- 1791-1857; Rossini, Gioacchino -- 1792-1868; Donizetti, Gaetano -- 1797-1848; Liszt, Franz -- 1811-1886; Schumann, Clara -- 1819-1896; 18th Century (1701-1800); 19th Century (1801-1900); Improvisation; Fantasia; Ornamentation; Opera; Cantata; Guitar; Bowed string instrument; Keyboard music; Cadenza; Italy; Portugal