Beyond notes
Subtitle: improvisation in Western music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
By: edited by Rudolf Rasch
Series: Speculum musicae -- v. 16; Speculum musicae -- v. 16.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9782503542447
Subjects: Improvisation (Music); Congresses
Notes: 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.
Table of contents: title: To begin with.; title: The volatility of musical composition  -- Rudolf Rasch -- The Eighteenth Century : theory.; title: The "Fantasy principle" : improvisation between imagination and oration in the Eighteenth Century  -- Martin Kaltenecker ;; title: Testimonianze sulla prassi improvvisativa dei musicisti italiani tra Sette e Ottocento  -- Carmela Bongiovanni ;; title: "L'orecchio più che 'l tempo dee servire di guida" : l'improvvisazione nella trattatistica italiana del secondo Settecento  -- Mariateresa Dellaborra -- The Eighteenth Century : practice.; title: Harmonic patterns and melodic paraphrases in Eighteenth-Century Portuguese music for the five-course guitar  -- Rogério Budasz ;; title: Formule e improvvisazione nei recitativi delle Cantate di Alessandro Scarlatti  -- Simone Ciolfi ;; title: Natura e arte nell'improvvisazione di Giuseppe Tartini  -- Gregorio Carraro ;; title: "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.; title: Improvisation into composition : the first movement of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Sonata in F-sharp minor, op.81  -- Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald ;; title: Clara Wieck Schumann's improvisations and her 'Mosaics' of small forms  -- Valerie Woodring Goertzen ;; title: Cadenza improvisation in Nineteenth-Century solo piano music according to Czerny, Liszt and their contemporaries  -- Martin Edin ;; title: Practical improvisation : the art of Louis Vierne  -- Steven Young -- The Nineteenth Century : bowed strings.; title: Paganini's virtuosity and improvisatory style  -- t Philippe Borer ;; title: Charles-Auguste de Bériot e l'improvvisazione virtuosistica per violino  -- Renato Ricco ;; title: 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.; title: Improvvisazione e ornamentazione nell'opera francese e italiana di primo Ottocento  -- Damien Colas ;; title: "Abbellimenti o fioriture" : further evidence of creative embellishment in and beyond the Rossinian repertoire  -- Laura Moeckli ;; title: Manacled freedom : Nineteenth-Century vocal improvisation and the flute-accompanied cadenza in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor  -- Naomi Matsumoto ;; title: 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.; title: "Ghost notes" : issues of inaudible improvisations -- Vincenzo Caporaletti.