Musical improvisation : art, education, and society

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Musical improvisation : art, education, and society

edited by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl

University of Illinois Press, c2009

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-347) and index

Contents of Works

  • 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 narratives of jazz history / Gabriel Solis
  • Formulas and improvisation in participatory music / Thomas Turino
  • 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
  • Musical improvisation in the modern dance class : techniques and approaches in fulfilling a multi-layered role / John Toenjes
  • 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

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