| Series |
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. ^A261178
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| Contents |
An art neglected in scholarship / Bruno Nettl -- Recognizing improvisation / Stephen Blum -- Psychological constraints on improvisational expertise and communication / Jeff Pressing -- Do Javanese gamelan musicians really improvise? / R. Anderson Sutton -- Improvisation, ecstasy, and performance dynamics in Arabic music / Ali Jihad Racy -- Go on, girl!: improvisation in African-American girls' singing games / Eve Harwood -- Improvisation in Latin American dance music: history and style / Peter Manuel -- Oh freedom: George Russel, John Coltrane, and modal jazz / Ingrid Monson -- Improvisation and group interaction in Italian lyrical singing / Tullia Magrini -- Exploding the belly: improvisation in Cantonese opera / Sau Y. Chan -- Melodic improvisation in Kar?ā?ak music: the manifestations of rāga / T. Viswanathan and Jody Cormack -- Setting the stage: Clara Schumann's preludes / Valerie Woodring Goertzen -- A sense of the possible: Miles Davis and the semiotics of improvised performance / Chris Smith -- The improvisation of Louis Armstrong / Lawrence Gushee -- Keeping it going: terms, practices, and processes of improvisation in Hindustānī instrumental music / Stephen Slawek -- Taqsim Nahawand revisited: the musicianship of Jihad Racy / Bruno Nettl and Ronald Riddle. |
| Abstract |
This book illustrates and explains the practices and processes of musical improvisation. Improvisation, by its very nature, seems to resist interpretation or elucidation. This difficulty may account for the very few attempts scholars have made to provide a general guide to this elusive subject. With contributions by seventeen scholars and improvisers, this book offers a history of research on improvisation and an overview of the different approaches to the topic that can be used, ranging from cognitive study to detailed musical analysis. Such diverse genres as Italian lyrical singing, modal jazz, Indian classical music, Javanese gamelan, and African-American girls' singing games are examined. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 98003640 |
| ISBN | 0226574105 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0226574113 (paperback : alk. paper) |
