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A listener's guide to free improvisation / John Corbett.
LIBRA MT68 .C658 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corbett, John, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Improvisation (Music).
- Music--Performance.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 172 pages ; 16 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Preparing to go into the field
- Range and diversity
- Fundamentals
- Rhythm: the hurdle
- Duration: another hurdle
- Basic identification: who is doing what?
- Entrances and exits: mapping the flow of events
- Interaction dynamics: the core
- Dynamics dynamics: passive-aggressive improvising
- Transitions: observing how the music changes
- Structure: the butcher shop
- Personal vocabulary: each unto themselves
- Advanced techniques
- On watching while listening
- Live or memorex?
- Tinder: 20 starter records for your improvised music collection
- Once vs. ongoing
- The level of mystery
- The ambiguous and the unresolved: is Tony dead?
- The rule of threes
- Dancing between the hypothetical poles
- Poly-free
- Tinder II: 20 classic poly-free records
- Distraction and sleep
- Thinking and chewing gum (at the same time)
- You and the night and the music: audience participation
- Additional reading: seven great books (plus one DVD)
- A little rouge, a touch of blush
- On the moral superiority of improvised music
- Life list: a selected checklist of major living free improvisors.
- ISBN:
- 9780226353807
- 9780226301778
- 022630177X
- 022635380X
- OCLC:
- 918986530
- Publisher Number:
- 99967316293
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