- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (133 pages) : 1 illustration, music.
- Summary
- Studying improvised music is always a challenge, due to its volatility and unpredictability. But what about studying musical improvisation from before the age of sound recordings? In this book three experts give their view on aspects of musical improvisation in the late medieval, renaissance, and early baroque periods. Historical sources show us how improvisation was an integral part of music education and how closely improvisation and composition were linked. This gives new insights into the way music was played in its original historical context and a new way to look at written scores from the past.0This book will appeal to anyone interested in the historical background of our written musical heritage, and to musicians who want to gain a deeper insight in the way this music was created.
- Series Statement
- Collected writings of the Orpheus Institute ; #11
- Uniform Title
- Improvising early music (Online)
- Collected writings of the Orpheus Institute ; #11.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- What is counterpoint? / Rob C. Wegman -- "Ex centro" improvisation : sketches for a theory of sound progressions in the early baroque / Johannes Menke -- From improvisation to composition : three 16th century case studies / Peter Schubert.
- LCCN
- 2014480042
- OCLC
- ssj0001558106
- Title
Improvising early music [electronic resource] : the history of musical improvisation from the late Middle Ages to the early Baroque / Rob C. Wegman, Johannes Menke, Peter Schubert.
- Imprint
Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2014.
- Series
Collected writings of the Orpheus Institute ; #11
Collected writings of the Orpheus Institute ; #11.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1400-1699
- Added Author
Wegman, Rob C. What is counterpoint?
Menke, Johannes, 1972- "Ex centro" improvisation.
Schubert, Peter, 1946- From improvisation to composition.