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    Musical Improvisation
    Art, Education, and Society

    Gabriel Solis (Author), Bruno Nettl (Edited by), Stephen Blum (Contributions by), Patricia Shehan Campbell (Contributions by), Sabine M Feisst (Contributions by), Lawrence Gushee (Contributions by), Robert S Hatten (Contributions by), William Kinderman (Contributions by), Natalie Kononenko (Contributions by), Robert Levin (Contributions by), Charlotte Mattax Moersch (Contributions by), Ingrid Monson (Contributions by), John P Murphy (Contributions by), Bruno Nettl (Contributions by), A. Jihad Racy (Contributions by), Anne K Rasmussen (Contributions by), Stephen Slawek (Contributions by), Gabriel Solis (Contributions by), Nicholas Temperley (Contributions by), John Toenjes (Contributions by), Thomas Turino (Contributions by)

    9780252034626

    Hardback, published 29 July 2009

    376 pages, 1 black & white photograph, 6 line drawings, 51 music examples, 2 tables
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.626 kg

    "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

    "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

    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.

    Preface   ix

    Bruno Nettl
    Introduction   1
    Gabriel Solis

    PART 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 Turino

    PART 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 Toenjes

    PART 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
     
     

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