Musical improvisation
Subtitle: art, education, and society
By: edited by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl.
Contributors: Solis, Gabriel, 1972-; Nettl, Bruno, 1930-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780252034626; 9780252076541
Subjects: Improvisation (Music) -- History; Improvisation (Music) -- Social aspects; Music -- History and criticism; Music -- Instruction and study
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Society. 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; title: Education. 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; title: Creation. 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.