Tabla de Contenidos: “…The improvisatory moment / Thomas Christensen -- Musical invention, rhetorical loci, and the art of memory / Stefano Lorenzetti -- Climbing the stairs of the memory palace : gestures at the keyboard for a flexible mind / Massimiliano Guido -- Toward a stylistic history of Cantare super librum / Philippe Canguilhem -- Contrapunto and fabordâon : practices of extempore polyphony in Renaissance Spain / Giuseppe Fiorentino -- Discovering the practice of improvised counterpoint / Jean-Yves Haymoz -- Composing at the keyboard : Banchieri and Spiridion, two complementary methods / Edoardo Bellotti -- Partimento teaching according to Francesco Durante, investigated through the earliest manuscript sources / Peter van Tour -- Partimento and incomplete notations in eighteenth-century keyboard music / Giorgio Sanguinetti -- Teaching theory through improvisation / Peter Schubert -- Learning tonal counterpoint through keyboard improvsation in the twenty-first century / Michael Callahan…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contiene: Parte I. De'partimenti ; Parte II. Delle imitazioni…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unforeheard circumstances ; Pantomimes and partimenti ; From black box to glassy shell ; The case of Winkel's componium ; The invisible thumb on the scale -- High scores : WAM vs. …”

“…Therefore, a variety of sources is examined by the contributors to this volume: italian partimenti, composed music that is guided by improvisational thinking (like Fantasia and Capriccio) textbooks, teaching documents, concert reports etc ... …”