Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A
Practical Approach is an innovative and groundbreaking approach to
medieval music as living repertoire. The book provides
philosophical frameworks, primary-source analysis, and clear,
actionable practices and exercises aimed at recovering the
improvisatory and inventive aspects of medieval music for
contemporary musicians. Aimed at both instrumentalists and
vocalists, the book explores the utilization of musical models, the
inventive implications of medieval notation, and the ways in which
memory, mode, rhetoric, and primary source paradigms inform the
improvisatory process in both monophonic and polyphonic music of
the Middle Ages. Angela Mariani, an experienced performer of both
medieval music and folk and traditional musics, rediscovers and
explicates the processes of imagination, invention, and
improvisation which historically energized both medieval music in
its own period and in its revival in our own time. Based on decades
of research, university teaching, ensemble direction,
collaboration, and performance, Mariani's impassioned stance that
"the elusive element of inventio, as the medieval rhetoricians
would have called it, must always be provided by the performer in
the present," emphasizes medieval music performance practice as a
dynamic and still-vital tradition. Students, teachers, directors,
and those interested in the wealth of expressive beauty found in
the music of the middle ages will likewise find value and meaning
in her clear and accessible prose, and in the practical processes
and exercises that make this book unique within the literature of
medieval performance practice.
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