Musical Improvisation and Open Forms in the Age of Beethoven

ISBN-13: 9781138222960 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 244 str.

Gianmario Borio; Angela Carone

Spis treści

Introduction, Gianmario Borio and Angela Carone;  Part I Improvisation and music theory; 1. Formal elements of instrumental improvisation: evidence from written documentation, 1770–1840, Angela Carone;  2. Musical form in improvisation treatises in the age of Beethoven, Jan Philipp Sprick;  3. ‘La solita cadenza’? Vocal improvisation, embellishments and fioriture in opera from the late eighteenth to the first half of the nineteenth century, Torsten Mario Augenstein;  4. ‘Free forms’ in German music theory and the Romantic conception of time, Gianmario Borio;  Part II From improvisation to composition;  5. Fantastical forms: formal functionality in improvisational genres of the Classical era, William E. Caplin;  6. Four piano fantasias by Hummel: improvisation, motivic processing, harmonic enterprise and the ‘memory function’, Rohan H. Stewart-MacDonald;  7. A step to the ‘Wanderer’. Schubert’s early Fantasia-Sonata in C Minor (D. 48), Pieter Bergé;  8. Didacticism and display in the capriccio and prelude for violin, 1785–1840, Catherine Coppola;  Part III Freedom as a tool for musical form;  9. ‘Quasi una fantasia’? The legacy of improvisational practice in Ludwig van Beethoven’s piano sonatas, Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen;  10. Improvisation practices in Beethoven’s Kleinere Stücke, Marco Targa;  11. The fate of the antepenultimate: fantasy and closure in the Classical style, Scott Burnham;  12. ‘Ad arbitrio dei cantanti’: vocal cadenzas and ornamentation in early nineteenth-century opera, Giorgio Pagannone