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Musical improvisation : art, education, and society

Title
Musical improvisation : art, education, and society / edited by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Solis, Gabriel, 1972-
  • Nettl, Bruno, 1930-2020.
Description
xv, 357 p. : ill., music; 23 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-347) and index.
Contents
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 -- 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 -- 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.
Call Number
JME 09-862
ISBN
  • 9780252034626 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0252034627 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780252076541 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0252076540 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008050474
OCLC
276514984
Title
Musical improvisation : art, education, and society / edited by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl.
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-347) and index.
Added Author
Solis, Gabriel, 1972-
Nettl, Bruno, 1930-2020.
Research Call Number
JME 09-862
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