Improvisation and Inventio in the Performance of Medieval Music: A Practical Approach
Awards:   Winner of Winner of the Texas Tech University First Place President's Faculty Book Award.
Author:   Angela Mariani (Associate Professor of Musicology, Associate Professor of Musicology, Texas Tech University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780190631178


Pages:   258
Publication Date:   26 October 2017
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of Winner of the Texas Tech University First Place President's Faculty Book Award.

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Author:   Angela Mariani (Associate Professor of Musicology, Associate Professor of Musicology, Texas Tech University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.573kg
ISBN:  

9780190631178


ISBN 10:   0190631171
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   26 October 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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"CONTENTS List of Figures List of Tables List of Examples List of Practices 1. The Process of Inventio 2. Models: Living and ""Imagined"" 3. Notation and Memoria: What's Not on the Page 4. Mode: The Vocabulary of Melody 5. Inventing Melody: Old Instruments, New Voices 6. Inventing Organum: Memoria and Formula 7. Playing Poetry: The Rhetoric of Invention 8. The Long Memory: Reflections on Teaching Medieval Music APPENDIX 1: Mode Models BIBLIOGRAPHY"

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One of the major challenges for students of medieval music is understanding the basic principles of composition and performance-chant, organum, modes, language, or a combination of these. As the subtitle indicates, Mariani (Texas Tech Univ. School of Music) provides a commonsense and practical approach to this specialized topic, giving real-life and step-by-step guidelines for tackling and being successful in the understanding and application of the concepts and constructs of medieval music ... A must-have book for those involved in the performance or study of medieval music. * Choice *


One of the major challenges for students of medieval music is understanding the basic principles of composition and performanceDLchant, organum, modes, language, or a combination of these. As the subtitle indicates, Mariani (Texas Tech Univ. School of Music) provides a commonsense and practical approach to this specialized topic, giving real-life and step-by-step guidelines for tackling and being successful in the understanding and application of the concepts and constructs of medieval music ... A must-have book for those involved in the performance or study of medieval music. --Choice


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Angela Mariani is Associate Professor of Musicology and director of the Collegium Musicum at the Texas Tech University School of Music. She studied medieval music with Thomas Binkley, Benjamin Bagby, and Barbara Thornton, and was a founding member of Altramar medieval music ensemble, who toured internationally and recorded seven CDs for the Dorian label. Since 1991, she has hosted the nationally-syndicated public radio program Harmonia. In 2017 she was the recipient of Early Music America's Thomas Binkley Award, given for outstanding achievement in performance and scholarship by a university early music ensemble director.

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