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