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  • Chapter 3 - Mediating Improvisation and Improvising Mediation

  • Angela Esterhammer, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    Print and Performance in the 1820s
    Published online:
    11 March 2020
    Print publication:
    20 February 2020, pp 61-84

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the relationship between improvisational performance and periodical journalism by way of the international reception of celebrity improvvisatore Tommaso Sgricci’s performances in Paris and London in 1824 and 1826. Accounts of Sgricci’s improvised tragedies proliferated in French, German, and English newspapers and literary magazines; when transcripts of his improvisations appeared in book form, they generated further reviews over the next several years. This constellation of live performances and written texts, along with the process of remediation that occurs between them, provokes reflections on the reciprocal relationship between a spontaneous and evanescent form of theatre and the differently time-bound genres of print culture. The international reception of Sgricci’s performances reveals transnational networks between late-Romantic periodicals as well as cultural differences that appear when journalists adapt their reviews to different local readerships.

Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy
  • Memory, Performance, and Oral Poetry
  • Blake Wilson
  • Published online:
    31 October 2019
    Print publication:
    21 November 2019
  • A primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument. Singing to the Lyre is the first comprehensive study of this ubiquitous practice, which was cultivated by performers ranging from popes, princes, and many artists, to professionals of both mercantile and humanist background. Common to all was a strong degree of mixed orality based on a synergy between writing and the oral operations of memory, improvisation, and performance. As a cultural practice deeply rooted in language and supported by ancient precedent, cantare ad lyram (singing to the lyre) is also a reflection of Renaissance cultural priorities, including the status of vernacular poetry, the study and practice of rhetoric, the oral foundations of humanist education, and the performative culture of the courts reflected in theatrical presentations and Castiglione's Il cortegiano.