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Musical Improvisation

Name: Musical Improvisation
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
SKU: 9780252076541
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252076541

Art, Education, and Society

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Edited by Gabriel Solis, Bruno Nettl
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Release Date: September 13, 2009
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 376

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Diverse perspectives and alternate takes on musical improvisation.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. Contributors are Stephen Blum, Patricia Shehan Campbell, Sabine M. Feisst, Lawrence Gushee, Robert S. Hatten, William Kinderman, Natalie Kononenko, Robert Levin, Charlotte Mattax Moersch, Ingrid Monson, John P. Murphy, Bruno Nettl, A. Jihad Racy, Anne K. Rasmussen, Stephen Slawek, Gabriel Solis, Nicholas Temperley, John Toenjes, and Thomas Turino.''Cutting across traditional subject boundaries in music and cultural studies, this admirably comprehensive work adopts a welcome interdisciplinary ideal and makes a truly significant contribution to our knowledge of musical improvisation.''--Robert Witmer, professor emeritus of music, York University

Musical Improvisation: Art, Education and Society; Edited by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl; Preface - Bruno Nettl; Introduction - Gabriel Solis; Part One: Society; 1. Jazz as Political and Musical Practice - Ingrid Monson; 2. John Cage and Improvisation: an Unresolved Relationship - Sabine M. Feisst; 3. When Traditional Improvisation is Prohibited: Contemporary; Ukrainian Funeral Laments and Burial Practices - Natalie Kononenko; 4. The Juncture between Creation and Recreation among Indonesian Reciters of the Qur'an - Anne K. Rasmussen; 5. Genius, Improvisation, and the Narrative of Jazz History - Gabriel Solis; 6. Formula, Variation and Improvisation in Participatory Music - Thomas Turino; Part Two: Education; 7. Learning to Improvise Music, Improvising to Learn Music - Patricia Shehan Campbell; 8. Improvising Mozart - Robert Levin; 9. Keyboard Improvisation in the Baroque Period - Charlotte Mattax Moersch; 10. Beyond the Improvisation Class: Learning to Improvise; in a University Jazz Studies Program - John P. Murphy; 11. On Learning the Radif and Improvisation in Iran - Bruno Nettl; 12. Hindustani Sitar and Jazz Guitar Music: A Foray into Comparative Improvology - Stephen Slawek; 13. Music Improvisation in the Modern Dance Class - John Toenjes; Part Three: Creation; 14. Representations of Music-Making - Stephen Blum; 15. Improvisation and Related Terms in Middle-Period Jazz - Lawrence Gushee; 16. Opening the Museum Window: Improvisation and its Inscribed Values in Canonic Works by Schumann and Chopin - Robert S. Hatten; 17. Improvisation in Beethoven's Creative Process - William Kinderman; 18. Why Do They Improvise? Reflections on; Meaning and Experience - A. Jihad Racy; 19. Preluding at the Piano - Nicholas Temperley; Contributor List; Index

''Cutting across traditional subject boundaries in music and cultural studies, this admirably comprehensive work adopts a welcome interdisciplinary ideal and makes a truly significant contribution to our knowledge of musical improvisation.'' Robert Witmer, professor emeritus of music, York University

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