Description
Book SynopsisDiverse perspectives and alternate takes on musical improvisation
Trade Review"Valuable not only to researchers but also to performers, who will find their minds opened to how music different from their own can help them improvise better in their chosen genre. . . . Recommended."--
Choice"A goldmine of information ... that is relevant to the amateur and scholar alike."--
Ethnomusicology"An impressive and often sophisticated collection of essays. . . . it certainly constitutes a welcome addition to the field."--
The World of Music"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
Table of ContentsPreface ix
Bruno NettlIntroduction 1
Gabriel SolisPART ONE: SOCIETY 1. Jazz as Political and Musical Practice 21
Ingrid Monson 2. John Cage and Improvisation: An Unresolved Relationship 38
Sabine M. Feisst 3. When Traditional Improvisation Is Prohibited: Contemporary Ukrainian Funeral Laments and Burial Practices 52
Natalie Kononenko 4. The Juncture between Creation and Re-creation among Indonesian Reciters of the Qur'an 72
Anne K. Rasmussen 5. Genius, Improvisation, and the Narratives of Jazz History 90
Gabriel Solis 6. Formulas and Improvisation in Participatory Music 103
Thomas TurinoPART TWO: EDUCATION 7. Learning to Improvise Music, Improvising to Learn Music 119
Patricia Shehan Campbell 8. Improvising Mozart 143
Robert Levin 9. Keyboard Improvisation in the Baroque Period 150
Charlotte Mattax Moersch 10. Beyond the Improvisation Class: Learning to Improvise in a University Jazz Studies Program 171
John P. Murphy 11. On Learning the Radif and Improvisation in Iran 185
Bruno Nettl 12. Hindustani Sitar and Jazz Guitar Music: A Foray into Comparative Improvology 200
Stephen Slawek 13. Musical Improvisation in the Modern Dance Class: Techniques and Approaches in Fulfilling a Multi-Layered Role 221
John ToenjesPART THREE: CREATION 14. Representations of Music Making 239
Stephen Blum 15. Improvisation and Related Terms in Middle-Period Jazz 263
Lawrence Gushee 16. Opening the Museum Window: Improvisation and Its Inscribed Values in Canonic Works by Chopin and Schumann 281
Robert S. Hatten 17. Improvisation in Beethoven's Creative Process 296
William Kinderman 18. Why Do They Improvise? Reflections on Meaning and Experience 313
Ali Jihad Racy 19. Preluding at the Piano 323
Nicholas Temperley Contributors 343
Index 349
