Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
part I ‘con la mente e con le mani’: Music and the art of memory
1 The Improvisatory Moment
Thomas Christensen
2 Musical Inventio, Rhetorical Loci, and the Art of Memory
Stefano Lorenzetti
3 Climbing the Stairs of the Memory Palace: Gestures at the Keyboard for a Flexible Mind
Massimiliano Guido
part II Improvising vocal Music
4 Towards a Stylistic History of ‘Cantare super Librum’
Philippe Canguilhem
5 Contrapunto and Fabordón: Practices of Extempore Polyphony in Renaissance Spain
Giuseppe Fiorentino
6 Discovering the Practice of Improvised Counterpoint
Jean-Yves Haymoz
part III Improvising Keyboard Music
7 Composing at the Keyboard: Banchieri and Spiridion, Two Complementary Methods
Edoardo Bellotti
8 Partimento Teaching According to Francesco Durante, Investigated Through the Earliest Manuscript Sources
Peter van Tour
9 Partimento and Incomplete Notations in Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music
Giorgio Sanguinetti
part IV Nova et vetera: Pedagogy
10 Teaching Theory Through Improvisation
Peter Schubert
11 Learning Tonal Counterpoint Through Keyboard Improvisation in the Twenty-First Century
Michael R. Callahan
Bibliography
Index