A listener's guide to free improvisation
By: John Corbett
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780226301778; 9780226353807
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Music appreciation; Improvisation (Music); Music; Performance
Table of contents: title: Preparing to go into the field; title: Range and diversity; title: Fundamentals. Rhythm : the hurdle; title: Duration : another hurdle; title: Basic identification : who is doing what?; title: Entrances and exits : mapping the flow of events; title: Interaction dynamics: the core; title: Dynamics dynamics : passive-aggressive improvising; title: Transitions : observing how the music changes; title: Structure : the butcher shop; title: Personal vocabulary : each unto themselves; title: Advanced techniques. On watching while listening; title: Live or memorex?; title: Kindling : 20 starter records for your improvised music collection; title: Once vs. ongoing; title: The level of mystery; title: The ambiguous and the unresolved : is Tony dead?; title: The rule of threes; title: Dancing between the hypothetical poles; title: Poly-free; title: Kindling II : 20 classic poly-free records; title: Distraction and sleep; title: Thinking and chewing gum (at the same time); title: You and the night and the music : audience participation; title: Additional reading : seven great books (plus one DVD); title: A little rouge, a touch of blush; title: On the moral superiority of improvised music; title: Life list : a selected checklist of major living free improvisors.