Inside Improvisation
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Inside Improvisation The Science Behind Theatrical Improvisation And How To Get Better
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Author : Richard Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Academy of Improvisation Press
Release Date : 2019-12-23
Inside Improvisation The Science Behind Theatrical Improvisation And How To Get Better written by Richard Bennett and has been published by Academy of Improvisation Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-23 with Performing Arts categories.
Inside Improvisation explores, compares and details the main methods of theatrical improvisation, from the Chicago method improv and Harold, to Keith Johnstone's impro and Theatresports, and everything of significance in-between. All while exploring the history and science behind how improvisation works, and how to become a better improvisor.
Thinking In Jazz
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Author : Paul F. Berliner
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-10-05
Thinking In Jazz written by Paul F. Berliner and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-05 with Music categories.
A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to the development of a unique improvisatory voice, Paul Berliner documents the lifetime of preparation that lies behind the skilled improviser's every idea. The product of more than fifteen years of immersion in the jazz world, Thinking in Jazz combines participant observation with detailed musicological analysis, the author's experience as a jazz trumpeter, interpretations of published material by scholars and performers, and, above all, original data from interviews with more than fifty professional musicians: bassists George Duvivier and Rufus Reid; drummers Max Roach, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and Akira Tana; guitarist Emily Remler; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Barry Harris; saxophonists Lou Donaldson, Lee Konitz, and James Moody; trombonist Curtis Fuller; trumpeters Doc Cheatham, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, and Red Rodney; vocalists Carmen Lundy and Vea Williams; and others. Together, the interviews provide insight into the production of jazz by great artists like Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Charlie Parker. Thinking in Jazz overflows with musical examples from the 1920s to the present, including original transcriptions (keyed to commercial recordings) of collective improvisations by Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's groups. These transcriptions provide additional insight into the structure and creativity of jazz improvisation and represent a remarkable resource for jazz musicians as well as students and educators. Berliner explores the alternative ways—aural, visual, kinetic, verbal, emotional, theoretical, associative—in which these performers conceptualize their music and describes the delicate interplay of soloist and ensemble in collective improvisation. Berliner's skillful integration of data concerning musical development, the rigorous practice and thought artists devote to jazz outside of performance, and the complexities of composing in the moment leads to a new understanding of jazz improvisation as a language, an aesthetic, and a tradition. This unprecedented journey to the heart of the jazz tradition will fascinate and enlighten musicians, musicologists, and jazz fans alike.
Improvisation
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Author : Mildred Portney Chase
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Improvisation written by Mildred Portney Chase and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Music categories.
In this book the author examines the special nature of improvisation. Chase's approach to the subject is based on her conviction that we are all born with the ability to improvise, but for various reasons we learn to mistrust and even deny our capability. The book is directed as much to the beginner as to the professional. It gives simple suggestions and open-ended examples that can be expanded upon in unlimited ways. Improvisation focuses mainly on the piano, but most of the suggestions can be explored on any instrument. This book is a rich source of ideas and inspiration. --from back cover.
Free Play
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Author : Stephen Nachmanovitch
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2024-01-18
Free Play written by Stephen Nachmanovitch and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-18 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
This book is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn while doing so. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms. Free Play is directed towards people in any field who want to contact, honour and strengthen their own creative powers. It reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured by certain unavoidable facts of life. How it can finally be liberated – how we can be liberated – to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice. Wise, generous and timeless, it has been a touchstone for creativity since 1990 and it is a book that you will find yourself reaching for again and again in times of need. This 2024 edition includes a new afterword by the author and a foreword by Women's Prize for Fiction-winner Ruth Ozeki.
Interaction Improvisation And Interplay In Jazz
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Author : Robert Hodson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-01-18
Interaction Improvisation And Interplay In Jazz written by Robert Hodson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-18 with Music categories.
Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz Performance offers a new and exciting way to listen to and understand jazz. When describing a performance, most jazz writers focus on the improvised lines of the soloist and their underlying harmonic progressions. This approach overlooks the basic fact that when you listen to jazz, you almost never hear a single line, but rather a musical fabric woven by several musicians in real time. While it is often pragmatic to single out an individual solo line, it is important to remember that an improvised solo is but one thread in that fabric; and it is a thread supported by, responded to, and responsive of the parts being played by the other musicians in the group. Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz Performance explores the process of player interaction in jazz, and the role this interaction plays in creating improvised music, including: jazz improvisation through theory and analysis musical roles, behaviours and relationships harmony, interaction and performance Interaction, Improvisation, and Interplay in Jazz Performance will appeal to students of jazz history, composition, and performance, as well as to the general jazz audience.
Studies In Historical Improvisation
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Author : Massimiliano Guido
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-01-06
Studies In Historical Improvisation written by Massimiliano Guido and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-06 with Music categories.
In recent years, scholars and musicians have become increasingly interested in the revival of musical improvisation as it was known in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. This historically informed practice is now supplanting the late Romantic view of improvised music as a rhapsodic endeavour—a musical blossoming out of the capricious genius of the player—that dominated throughout the twentieth century. In the Renaissance and Baroque eras, composing in the mind (alla mente) had an important didactic function. For several categories of musicians, the teaching of counterpoint happened almost entirely through practice on their own instruments. This volume offers the first systematic exploration of the close relationship among improvisation, music theory, and practical musicianship from late Renaissance into the Baroque era. It is not a historical survey per se, but rather aims to re-establish the importance of such a combination as a pedagogical tool for a better understanding of the musical idioms of these periods. The authors are concerned with the transferral of historical practices to the modern classroom, discussing new ways of revitalising the study and appreciation of early music. The relevance and utility of such an improvisation-based approach also changes our understanding of the balance between theoretical and practical sources in the primary literature, as well as the concept of music theory itself. Alongside a word-centred theoretical tradition, in which rules are described in verbiage and enriched by musical examples, we are rediscovering the importance of a music-centred tradition, especially in Spain and Italy, where the music stands alone and the learner must distil the rules by learning and playing the music. Throughout its various sections, the volume explores the path of improvisation from theory to practice and back again.
Structure And Improvisation In Creative Teaching
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Author : R. Keith Sawyer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-27
Structure And Improvisation In Creative Teaching written by R. Keith Sawyer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-27 with Psychology categories.
With an increasing emphasis on creativity and innovation in the twenty-first century, teachers need to be creative professionals just as students must learn to be creative. And yet, schools are institutions with many important structures and guidelines that teachers must follow. Effective creative teaching strikes a delicate balance between structure and improvisation. The authors draw on studies of jazz, theater improvisation and dance improvisation to demonstrate that the most creative performers work within similar structures and guidelines. By looking to these creative genres, the book provides practical advice for teachers who wish to become more creative professionals.
Developing A Jazz Language Vol 6
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Author : Jerry Bergonzi
language : en
Publisher: Alfred Music
Release Date : 2015-10
Developing A Jazz Language Vol 6 written by Jerry Bergonzi and has been published by Alfred Music this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10 with Improvisation (Music) categories.
Developing a Jazz Language, is the sixth volume of Jerry Bergonzi's series, Inside Improvisation. Learning a language requires listening on many levels to the meanings, the sounds, the intentions, and the inflections or nuances of the language. The first chapters of this volume on learning the language of jazz focus on the prerequisites of chord scales, approach notes to chord tones and target notes, scale motives and sequences, and lines. Part two qualifies improvisational techniques into three areas; melodic, harmonic and sonic (rhythmic devices are the focus of Vol. IV, Melodic Rhythms) and it is designed as a menu of soloing devices from which you can select your personal course of study. Over 100 specific devices are discussed and conceptualized so as to give the improviser more depth of expression and a greater well from which to draw ideas. Among the numerous topics presented are: guide tones, voice leading, chord substitutions, three tonic system for composition, tritonics, hexatonics, tonal expansions, whole tone playing, augmented symmetric scales, double diminished scales, limited range and large range playing, shapes, blues melodies, accents, comping as a soloing device, common tones, articulations, laying back on the... The book includes free downloadable audio tracks of twelve standard chord progressions, each played in two different tempos.
Melodic Structures
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Author : Jerry Bergonzi
language : en
Publisher: Alfred Music
Release Date : 1994
Melodic Structures written by Jerry Bergonzi and has been published by Alfred Music this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Music categories.
"A simple and pragmatic approach to improvisation. While focusing on the jazz idiom, the techniques discussed are applicable to many styles of music and all instruments, be it rock guitar, jazz saxophone, or the solos of the fusion keyboardist. The system presented in this volume offers a tangible pathway to inside the creative imagination by getting inside the harmony, inside the changes. Chord changes are included for C concert, B and E instruments. In addition the book includes transposed examples for all instruments (C treble clef, B, E, and bass clef)."--Back cover.
Improvisation
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Author : Derek Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 1993-08-22
Improvisation written by Derek Bailey and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-08-22 with Music categories.
Derek Bailey's IMPROVISATION, originally published in 1980, now revised with additional interviews and photographs, deals with the nature of improvisation in all its forms--Indian music, flamenco, baroque, organ music, rock, jazz, contemporary, and "free" music. Bailey offers a clear view of the breathtaking spectrum of possibilities inherent in improvisational practice.