Improvisation in the arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance / Timothy J. McGee, editor

Published: Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2003.
Physical Description: xii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: McGee, Timothy J. (Timothy James), 1936-

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Series

Early drama, art, and music monograph series ; 30.

Contents

Improvisation in the arts / D. Pietropaolo -- Cantare all'improvviso: improvising to poetry in late medieval Italy / T.J. McGee -- Performance practice, experimental archaeology, and the problem of the respectability of results / R.A. Rosenfeld -- Instrumentalists and performance practices in dance music c. 1500 / K. Polk -- Improvisation and embellishment in popular and art dances in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy / B. Sparti -- Disorder in order: improvisation in Italian choreographed dances of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / J. Nevile -- Ornamentation and improvisation in sixteenth-century dance / G.Y. Kendall -- Improvisation in medieval drama / C. Davidson -- Medieval and modern deletions of repellent passages in medieval texts / L.M. Zaerr -- Shakespeare's rhetorical riffs / J. Freeman -- The improvising vice in Renaissance England / D.N. Klausner -- Improvisation and the visual arts : the view from sixteenth-century Italy / L. Korrick.

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ISBN

1580440444 (casebound : alk. paper)
1580440452 (paperbound : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of Acquisition

UP-PAT copy: Selected in honor of Neil Porterfield, Grand Destiny campaign volunteer; 20023.

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