Angela Mariani

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music

A Practical Approach

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to medieval music as living repertoire. The book provides philosophical frameworks, primary-source analysis, and clear, actionable exercises aimed at recovering the improvisatory and inventive aspects of medieval music for contemporary musicians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780190631185
• ISBN-10: 019063118X
• Artikelnr.: 47969406

Autorenporträt

Angela Mariani is Associate Professor of Musicology and director of the Collegium Musicum at the Texas Tech University School of Music. She studied medieval music with Thomas Binkley, Benjamin Bagby, and Barbara Thornton, and was a founding member of Altramar medieval music ensemble, who toured internationally and recorded seven CDs for the Dorian label. Since 1991, she has hosted the nationally-syndicated public radio program Harmonia. In 2017 she was the recipient of Early Music America's Thomas Binkley Award, given for outstanding achievement in performance and scholarship by a university early music ensemble director.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Examples
List of Practices
1. The Process of Inventio
2. Models: Living and "Imagined"
3. Notation and Memoria: What's Not on the Page
4. Mode: The Vocabulary of Melody
5. Inventing Melody: Old Instruments, New Voices
6. Inventing Organum: Memoria and Formula
7. Playing Poetry: The Rhetoric of Invention
8. The Long Memory: Reflections on Teaching Medieval Music
APPENDIX 1: Mode Models
BIBLIOGRAPHY