Musical improvisation : art, education, and society / edited by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Solis, Gabriel, 1972- editor.

Nettl, Bruno, 1930- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Improvisation (Music)--History.

Improvisation (Music).

Improvisation (Music)--Social aspects.

Music--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Instruction and study.

Genre:

Kongress -- Urbana-Champaign (Ill.) -- 2004.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 357 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]

Summary:

A musical practice used for centuries the world over, improvisation too often has been neglected by scholars who dismiss it as either technically undissectible or inexplicably mysterious. At different times and in different cultures, performing music that is not precomposed has constituted an artful expression of the performer's individuality (the Baroque) ; a wild, unthinking form of expression (jazz antagonists); and the best method to train inexperienced musicians to use their instruments (the Middle East). This wide-ranging collection of essays considers musical improvisation from a variety of approaches, including ethnomusicology, education, performance, historical musicology, and music theory. Laying the groundwork for even further research into improvisation, the contributors of this volume delve into topics as diverse as the creative minds of Mozart and Beethoven, the place of improvised musics in Western and non-Western societies, and the development of jazz as a musical and cultural phenomenon.

Contents:

Jazz as political and musical practice / Ingrid Monson

John Cage and improvisation : an unresolved relationship / Sabine M. Feisst

When traditional improvisation is prohibited : contemporary Ukrainian funeral laments and burial practices / Natalie Kononenko

The juncture between creation and re-creation among Indonesian reciters of the Qur'an / Anne K. Rasmussen

Genius, improvisation, and the narrative of jazz history / Gabriel Solis

Formulas and improvisation in participatory music / Thomas Turino

Learning to improvise music, improvising to learn music / Patricia Shehan Campbell

Improvising Mozart / Robert Levin

Keyboard improvisation in the Baroque period / Charlotte Mattax Moersch

Beyond the improvisation class : learning to improvise in a university jazz studies program / John P. Murphy

On learning the radif and improvisation in Iran / Bruno Nettl

Hindustani sitar and jazz guitar music : a foray into comparative improvology / Stephen Slawek

Music improvisation in the modern dance class : techniques and approaches in fulfilling a multi-layered role / John Toenjes

Representations of music making / Stephen Blum

Improvisation and related terms in middle-period jazz / Lawrence Gushee

Opening the museum window : improvisation and its inscribed values in canonic works by Chopin and Schumann / Robert S. Hatten

Improvisation in Beethoven's creative process / William Kinderman

Why do they improvise? Reflections on meaning and experience / Ali Jihad Racy

Preluding at the piano / Nicholas Temperley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Musical improvisation.

ISBN:

9780252034626

0252034627

9780252076541

0252076540

OCLC:

276514984

Publisher Number:

99992879007