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Improvisation in the arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance / Timothy J. McGee, editor.
| Other author | McGee, Timothy J. (Timothy James), 1936- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2003. |
| Description | xii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early drama, art, and music monograph series ; 30 Early drama, art, and music monograph series ; 30. ^A223158 |
| Contents | Improvisation in the arts / Domenico Pietropaolo -- Music. Cantare all'improvviso: improvising to poetry in late medieval Italy / Timothy J. McGee -- Performance practice, experimental archaeology, and the problem of the respectability of results / Randall A. Rosenfeld -- Instrumentalists and performance practices in dance music c. 1500 / Keith Polk -- Dance. Improvisation and embellishment in popular and art dances in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy / Barbara Sparti -- Disorder in order: improvisation in Italian choreographed dances of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Jennifer Nevile -- Ornamentation and improvisation in sixteenth-century dance / G. Yvonne Kendall -- Drama. Improvisation in medieval drama / Clifford Davidson -- Medieval and modern deletions of repellent passages in medieval texts / Linda Marie Zaerr -- Shakespeare's rhetorical riffs / Jane Freeman -- The improvising vice in Renaissance England / David N. Klausner -- Art. Improvisation and the visual arts: the view from sixteenth-century Italy / Leslie Korrick. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2002015087 |
| ISBN | 1580440444 (casebound : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1580440452 (paperbound : alk. paper) |