History of Improvisation in Western Art Music Contemporary Efforts in Classical Improvisation
Across Notes: Improvisation in Western Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
R. Rasch (ed.)
XII+387 p., 99 b/westward ill., 210 ten 270 mm, 2011
ISBN: 978-two-503-54244-7
Languages: English
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Improvisation is an important attribute of music, non only in jazz and other 'improvised music', but also of classical music. Pianists may add improvised interludes to their recitals and cadenzas to a concerto they perform. They may conclude their recitals by playing compositions composed on the spot, freely invented or on themes handed to them past the public. Violinists and other instrumentalists may practise the same. Singers may add together embellishments to their arias which are non notated in their scores, a practice widely spread in nineteenth-century opera. For the listener information technology may perhaps not make very much difference whether or not what he hears is improvised or equanimous, but for the performer information technology does, of grade. In fact, the improviser shows that he is a real primary of the fine art: he can practice at in one case, without preparation, what others can do only with grooming. Only there is also a genre of written compositions which is supposed to sound equally improvisations, especially those entitled Improvisation, Fantasy, Impromptu, Prelude, and then forth.
Across Notes: Improvisation in Western Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries brings together twenty essays that do confirm the many sides of the concept of 'improvisation' and the broad range of approaches that tin can be taken to information technology. Because of the commonage nature of this volume, the approaches do indeed vary greatly. Some contributions deal with improvisation from the conceptual point of view: what really is improvisation? Others bargain with certain repertoires, or with specific examples. Some bargain with improvised additions, others with improvisational aspects of written compositions. The contribution on the improvisations of the French organist Louis Vierne deals direct with recorded improvisations. The contribution on the flute-cadenza in Donizetti'south Lucia di Lammermoor encompasses recorded material, but this was rather semi-improvisational, prepared certainly, merely non necessarily notated and not necessarily performed identically every fourth dimension. Gimmicky descriptions of improvisations are constitute in contributions on Italian music theorists and musicians in general, and in those on composers such as Hummel, Paganini, Bériot, Clara Wieck Schumann, Czerny, Liszt and Henselt. Compositions in improvisatory style are discussed in several of these contributions and in i on nineteenth-century Hungarian or so-chosen 'Gypsy' music. Ad libitum ornamentation is discussed in relation to Tartini's violin sonatas and nineteenth-century operatic arias. Other contributions discuss the instability that is a property of about all music or the migration of motives and schemes from one composition to another, processes that pave the way for improvised additions. Several contributions provide theoretical reflections on improvisation.
Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries contains contributions by Carmela Bongiovanni (Genoa), Philippe Borer (Boudry, Switzerland), Rogério Budasz (Riverside, California), Vincenzo Caporaletti (Rome), Gregorio Carraro (Padoa), Simone Ciolfi (Rome), Damien Colas (Paris), Mariateresa Dellaborra (Pavia), Raffaele Di Mauro (Rome), Martin Edin (Stockholm), Valerie Woodring Goertzen (New Orleans), Martin Kaltenecker (Paris), John Lutterman (Walla Walla, Washington), Naomi Matsumoto (London), Laura Moeckli (Bern), Csilla Pethő-Vernet (Paris), Rudolf Rasch (Utrecht), Renato Ricco (Salerno), Rohan Stewart-MacDonald (Cambridge), and Steven Immature (Bridgewater, Massachusetts).
Table of Contents
Preface
To Brainstorm with...
Rudolf Rasch, The Volatility of Musical Composition
The Eighteenth Century: Theory
Martin Kaltenecker, The «Fantasy-Principle»: Improvisation between Imagination and Oration in the Eighteenth Century – Carmela Bongiovanni, Testimonianze sulla prassi improvvisativa dei musicisti italiani tra Sette e Ottocento (+ English Summary) – Mariateresa Dellaborra, «Fifty'orecchio più che 'fifty tempo dee servire di guida»: 50'improvvisazione nella trattatistica italiana del secondo Settecento (+ English language Summary)
The Eighteenth Century: Practice
Rogério Budasz, Harmonic Patterns and Melodic Paraphrases in Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Music for the Five-Class Guitar – Simone Ciolfi, Formule e improvvisazione nei recitativi delle Cantate di Alessandro Scarlatti (+ English Summary) – Gregorio Carraro, Natura e arte nell'improvvisazione di Giuseppe Tartini (+ English language Summary) – John Lutterman, «Cet art est la perfection du talent»: Chordal Thoroughbass Realization and Improvised Solo Performance on the Viol and Cello in the Eighteenth Century
The Nineteenth Century: Keyboard Instruments
Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald, Improvisation into Composition: The First Move of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Sonata in F-abrupt Small-scale, Op. 81 – Valerie Woodring Goertzen, Clara Wieck Schumann'south Improvisations and Her 'Mosaics' of Small Forms – Martin Edin, Cadenza Improvisation in Nineteenth-Century Solo Pianoforte Music According to Czerny, Liszt and their Contemporaries – Steven Young, Practical Improvisation: The Fine art of Louis Vierne
The Nineteenth Century: Bowed Strings
Philippe Borer, Paganini's Virtuosity and Improvisatory Style – Renato Ricco, Charles-Auguste de Bériot eastward 50'improvvisazione virtuosistica per violino (+ English Summary) – Csilla Pethő-Vernet, The Advantages and Drawbacks of Notation, or How to Confront Improvisatory Elements in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Popular Music
The Nineteenth Century: Song Music
Damien Colas, Improvvisazione e ornamentazione nell'opera francese e italiana di primo Ottocento (+ English language Summary) – Laura Moeckli, «Abbellimenti o fioriture»: Farther Prove of Artistic Embellishment in and beyond the Rossinian Repertoire – Naomi Matsumoto, Manacled Freedom: Nineteenth-Century Vocal Improvisation and the Flute-Accompanied Cadenza in Gaetano Donizetti's 'Lucia di Lammermoor' – Raffaele Di Mauro, Improvvisazione popolare e urbana a Napoli nel primo Ottocento: dai canti del molo a «Io te voglio bene assaje» (+ English language Summary)
…and to End with
Vincenzo Caporaletti, «Ghost Notes»: Issues of Inaudible Improvisations
Contributors
Index of Names
Review
"Wer Anregungen zum weiteren Nachdenken sucht, wird in diesem Sinne daher gerne auf den vorliegenden Band (...) zurückgreifen. (...) Wie immer bei Brepols ist die Ausstatung vorzüglich." (Michael Kube, in: Schweizer Musikzeitung, Nr. 7/viii/2014 - Juli 2014, p. thirteen; www.musikzeitung.ch/de/rezensionen/buecher/2014/07/improvisation.html)
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