PARALLELS OF RHETORIC AND BAROQUE INSTRUMENTAL IMPROVISATION: PEDAGOGICAL REFLECTIONS
The article attempts to trace the relationship of ancient rhetoric with the musical rhetoric of the Baroque, and how to transform these principles in teaching baroque instrumental improvisation. The art of improvisation, which is the basis of the performing arts of the 17th and 18th centuries, is inextricably linked with musical rhetoric. One of the fundamental ideas of musical rhetoric is “Music is speech”. Today, when the direction of “historically informed performance” has been formed, knowledge of the foundations of ancient and musical rhetoric, which has become the methodological basis for the study of baroque instrumental improvisation, is absolutely necessary, since this knowledge is the key to a deeper understanding of the musical language of the XVII-XVIII centuries.