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The Interactive Muse: Piano Improvisation in the 19th Century – Coordinator: Susanna Pasticci
In this section you can browse through some materials related to a workshop that took place in Rome from the 16th to the 18th of October 2024. The aim of the workshop was to experiment with new approaches to the performance of nineteenth-century repertoire, based on the recovery of improvisation and historical performance practices.
Distinguished scholars Costantino Mastroprimiano, John Mortensen, and Giorgio Sanguinetti gave lectures on historical sources, early 19th century partimento and Romantic improvisation techniques. These lectures provided the participating pianists with valuable guidelines for improvising preludes and interludes when performing pieces from the 19th century repertoire.
The alternation of these performance-based sessions with theoretical ones, coordinated by Susanna Pasticci, featured discussions among a range of experts, including musicologists, performers, and philosophers and psychologists. The focus of these discussions centred on exploring the spaces of improvisational action suggested by 19th-century scores, which musicians of the time could easily recognise and interpret, but which are no longer fully decipherable for contemporary performers.
The final concert, preceded by a panel discussion with music critics and organisers, featured improvisations by eight workshop participants on pieces from the Romantic repertoire. The videos in this section document highlights of the lectures given by the three lecturers, as well as excerpts from the final concert. The contributions of the musicologists and scholars will be published in a volume that will be available on this portal
The Art of Jazz Improvisation for classical trained musicians – coordinator: Thelonius Monk
In this section you can browse through some materials related to a workshop that took place in Rome from the 16th to the 18th of October 2024. The aim of the workshop was to experiment with new approaches to the performance of nineteenth-century repertoire, based on the recovery of improvisation and historical performance practices.
Distinguished scholars Costantino Mastroprimiano, John Mortensen, and Giorgio Sanguinetti gave lectures on historical sources, early 19th century partimento and Romantic improvisation techniques. These lectures provided the participating pianists with valuable guidelines for improvising preludes and interludes when performing pieces from the 19th century repertoire.
The alternation of these performance-based sessions with theoretical ones, coordinated by Susanna Pasticci, featured discussions among a range of experts, including musicologists, performers, and philosophers and psychologists. The focus of these discussions centred on exploring the spaces of improvisational action suggested by 19th-century scores, which musicians of the time could easily recognise and interpret, but which are no longer fully decipherable for contemporary performers.
The final concert, preceded by a panel discussion with music critics and organisers, featured improvisations by eight workshop participants on pieces from the Romantic repertoire. The videos in this section document highlights of the lectures given by the three lecturers, as well as excerpts from the final concert. The contributions of the musicologists and scholars will be published in a volume that will be available on this portal