Musical improvisation : art, education, and society /

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Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
Description:xv, 357 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7792656
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Other authors / contributors:Solis, Gabriel, 1972-
Nettl, Bruno, 1930-
ISBN:9780252034626 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252034627 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252076541 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252076540 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of 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.