Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Edited by Timothy J. McGee
Hardback (Published)
(July 2003)
ISBN: 9781580440448
6.14 x 9.21 inches
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A careful reading of the essays brings with it the awareness that to ignore improvisation is to distort the art in a major way. In light of the present volume, the very concept of “faithful historical re-creation” takes on a much broader and more complex character.
One impression that stands out from this collection is the extent to which improvisation was an important factor in all of the arts. As each of the authors assembles a case by ferreting out bits and pieces of information having to do with a single art, the weight of the assembled material lends additional strength to each case. By considering the overall picture that results, as well as that made by each of the individual studies, the reader is able to see much more clearly the role played by improvisation from the late Middle Ages through to the time of Shakespeare and beyond. A careful reading of the essays brings with it the awareness that to ignore improvisation is to distort the art in a major way. In light of the present volume, the very concept of faithful historical re-creation takes on a much broader and more complex character.
Illustrations
Foreward
Improvisation in the Arts by Domenico Pietropaolo
Music
Cantare all'improvviso: Improvising to Poetry in Late Medieval Italy by Timothy J. McGee
Performance Practice, Experimental Archaeology, and the Problem of the Respectability of Results by Randall A. Rosenfeld
Instrumentalists and Performance Practices in Dance Music, c. 1500 by Keith Polk
Dance
Improvisation and Embellishment in Popular and Art Dances in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy by Barbara Sparti
Disorder in Order: Improvisation in Italian Choreographed Dances of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries by Jennifer Nevile
Ornamentation and Improvisation in Sixteenth-Century Dance by G. Yvonne Kendall
Drama
Improvisation in Medieval Drama by Clifford Davidson
Medieval and Modern Deletions of Repellent Passages by Linda Marie Zaerr
Shakespeare's Rhetorical Riffs by Jane Freeman
The Improvising Vice in Renaissance England by David N. Klausner
Art
Improvisation in the Visual Arts: The View from Sixteenth-Century Italy by Leslie Korrick
Index
- Edited by Timothy J. McGee
Other Titles in this Series
The Monophonic Lauda and the Lay Religious Confraternities of Tuscany and Umbria in the Late Middle Ages
Shakespeare’s Play within Play
Medieval Imagery and Scenic Form in "Hamlet," "Othello," and "King Lear"
Drama and Art
An Introduction to the Use of Evidence from the Visual Arts for the Study of Early Drama
Word, Picture, and Spectacle
Papers by Karl P. Wentersdorf, Roger Ellis, Clifford Davidson, and R. W. Hanning
Crossing the Boundaries
Christian Piety and the Arts in Italian Medieval and Renaissance Confraternities
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