| Description |
xv, 357 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Improvisation (Music) -- History.
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Improvisation (Music) |
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History. |
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Improvisation (Music) -- Social aspects.
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Social aspects. |
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Music -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Music -- Instruction and study.
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Music -- Instruction and study. |
| Added Author |
Solis, Gabriel, 1972-
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Nettl, Bruno, 1930-2020.
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| ISBN |
9780252034626 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0252034627 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780252076541 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0252076540 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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