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Fantasies of Improvisation

Author : Dana Andrew Gooley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190633581
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Fantasies of Improvisation written by Dana Andrew Gooley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music from the time of Beethoven through the later nineteenth century, Dana Gooley's Free Play: Fantasies of Improvisation in Nineteenth-Century Music describes the motives, intentions, and musical styles of the nineteenth century's leading improvisers, and traces the evolution of the performance practice into a glorified ideal.

Fantasies of Improvisation

Author : Dana Andrew Gooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190633615
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Fantasies of Improvisation written by Dana Andrew Gooley and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music from the time of Beethoven through the later nineteenth century, Dana Gooley's Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music describes the motives, intentions, and musical styles of the nineteenth century's leading improvisers, and traces the evolution of the performance practice into a glorified ideal.

Fantasies of Improvisation

Author : Dana Gooley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019063359X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Fantasies of Improvisation written by Dana Gooley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music in the postclassical and romantic periods, Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music documents practices of improvisation on the piano and the organ, with a particular emphasis on free fantasies and other forms of free playing. Case studies of performers such as Abbé Vogler, J. N. Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, Robert Schumann, Carl Loewe, and Franz Liszt describe in detail the motives, intentions, and musical styles of the nineteenth century's leading improvisers. Grounded in primary sources, the book further discusses the reception and valuation of improvisational performances by colleagues, audiences, and critics, which prompted many keyboardists to stop improvising. Author Dana Gooley argues that amidst the decline of improvisational practices in the first half of the nineteenth century there emerged a strong and influential "idea" of improvisation as an ideal or perfect performance. This idea, spawned and nourished by romanticism, preserved the aesthetic, social, and ethical values associated with improvisation, calling into question the supposed triumph of the "work."

The Grand Union

Author : Wendy Perron
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819579335
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Union written by Wendy Perron and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Union was a leaderless improvisation group in SoHo in the 1970s that included people who became some of the biggest names in postmodern dance: Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, Barbara Dilley, David Gordon, and Douglas Dunn. Together they unleashed a range of improvised forms from peaceful movement explorations to wildly imaginative collective fantasies. This book delves into the "collective genius" of Grand Union and explores their process of deep play. Drawing on hours of archival videotapes, Wendy Perron seeks to understand the ebb and flow of the performances. Includes 65 photographs.

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies

Author : George Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019989292X
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies written by George Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1. Cognitions -- v. 2. Critical theories

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies

Author : George E. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199892938
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies written by George E. Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from more than sixty scholars working in architecture, anthropology, art history, computer science, cognitive science, cultural studies, dance, economics, education, ethnomusicology, film, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary theory, musicology, neuroscience, new media, organizational science, performance studies, philosophy, popular music studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and sound art, among others.

Musical Improvisation

Author : Gabriel Solis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252076540
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Musical Improvisation written by Gabriel Solis and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A musical practice used for centuries the world over, improvisation too often has been neglected by scholars who dismiss it as either technically undissectible or inexplicably mysterious. At different times and in different cultures, performing music that is not "precomposed" has constituted an artful expression of the performer's individuality (the Baroque); a wild, unthinking form of expression (jazz antagonists); and the best method to train inexperienced musicians to use their instruments (the Middle East). This wide-ranging collection of essays considers musical improvisation from a variety of approaches, including ethnomusicology, education, performance, historical musicology, and music theory. Laying the groundwork for even further research into improvisation, the contributors of this volume delve into topics as diverse as the creative minds of Mozart and Beethoven, the place of improvised musics in Western and non-Western societies, and the development of jazz as a musical and cultural phenomenon.

After the Golden Age

Author : Kenneth Hamilton
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195178262
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book After the Golden Age written by Kenneth Hamilton and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamilton dissects the oft invoked myth of a 'Great Tradition', or Golden Age of pianism. He then goes on to discuss the performance style great pianists, from Liszt to Paderewski, and delves into the far from inevitable development of the piano recital.

Brahms's Elegies

Author : Nicole Grimes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474497
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Brahms's Elegies written by Nicole Grimes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique insight into the relationship between Brahms's music and his philosophical and literary context from a modernist perspective.

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies

Author : George Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195370937
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies written by George Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1. Cognitions -- v. 2. Critical theories

Improvisation

Author : Karis Walsh
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 160282911X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Improvisation written by Karis Walsh and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a lifetime of moving and change, Jan Carroll wants nothing more than to settle down and build a home. Then her father gets sick, and the stable—if solitary—life she’s made as a high school geometry teacher in Spokane, Washington, threatens to crumble around her. She wants little to do with newcomer Tina Nelson, a shallow and unreliable playgirl. Especially since their mutual friend Brooke Stanton has been not-so-subtly matchmaking… Tina, a graphic artist and musician, has vowed to spend her life free from the obligations that characterized her youth. No ties, no long-term commitments. But she agrees to travel to Spokane to help her cousin promote his business and, in a second moment of weakness, promises to contact Jan. Tina is certain her acquaintance with the too-logical and inflexible woman will be a short one. Sometimes, though, love makes you throw away life’s careful script. Can these women learn to improvise?

Making It Up Together

Author : Leslie A. Tilley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022666760X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Making It Up Together written by Leslie A. Tilley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of musical improvisation focus on individual musicians. But that is not the whole story. From jazz to flamenco, Shona mbira to Javanese gamelan, improvised practices thrive on group creativity, relying on the close interaction of multiple simultaneously improvising performers. In Making It Up Together, Leslie A. Tilley explores the practice of collective musical improvisation cross-culturally, making a case for placing collectivity at the center of improvisation discourse and advocating ethnographically informed music analysis as a powerful tool for investigating improvisational processes. Through two contrasting Balinese case studies—of the reyong gong chime’s melodic norot practice and the interlocking drumming tradition kendang arja—Tilley proposes and tests analytical frameworks for examining collectively improvised performance. At the micro-level, Tilley’s analyses offer insight into the note-by-note decisions of improvising performers; at the macro-level, they illuminate larger musical, discursive, structural, and cultural factors shaping those decisions. This multi-tiered inquiry reveals that unpacking how performers play and imagine as a collective is crucial to understanding improvisation and demonstrates how music analysis can elucidate these complex musical and interactional relationships. Highlighting connections with diverse genres from various music cultures, Tilley’s examinations of collective improvisation also suggest rich potential for cross-genre exploration. The surrounding discussions point to larger theories of communication and interaction, creativity and cognition that will be of interest to a range of readers—from ethnomusicologists and music theorists to cognitive psychologists, jazz studies scholars, and improvising performers. Setting new parameters for the study of improvisation, Making It Up Together opens up fresh possibilities for understanding the creative process, in music and beyond.

Musical Improvisation and Open Forms in the Age of Beethoven

Author : Gianmario Borio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367884628
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Musical Improvisation and Open Forms in the Age of Beethoven written by Gianmario Borio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation was a crucial aspect of musical life in Europe from the late eighteenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth, representing a central moment in both public occasions and the private lives of many artists. Composers dedicated themselves to this practice at length while formulating the musical ideas later found at the core of their published works; improvisation was thus closely linked to composition itself. The full extent of this relation can be inferred from both private documents and reviews of concerts featuring improvisations, while these texts also inform us that composers quite often performed in public as both improvisers and interpreters of pieces written by themselves or others. Improvisations presented in concert were distinguished by a remarkable degree of structural organisation and complexity, demonstrating performers' consolidated abilities in composition as well as their familiarity with the rules for improvising outlined by theoreticians.

Distributed Creativity

Author : Eric F. Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199355932
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Distributed Creativity written by Eric F. Clarke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative practice in music, particularly in traditional concert culture, is commonly understood in terms of a rather stark division of labour between composer and performer. But this overlooks the distributed and interactive nature of the creative processes on which so much contemporary music depends. The incorporation of two features-improvisation and collaboration-into much contemporary music suggests that the received view of the relationship between composition and performance requires reassessment. Improvisation and collaborative working practices blur the composition/performance divide and, in doing so, provide important new perspectives on the forms of distributed creativity that play a central part in much contemporary music. Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music explores the different ways in which collaboration and improvisation enable and constrain creative processes. Thirteen chapters and twelve shorter Interventions offer a range of perspectives on distributed creativity in music, on composer/performer collaborations and on contemporary improvisation practices. The chapters provide substantial discussions of a variety of conceptual frameworks and particular projects, while the Interventions present more informal contributions from a variety of practitioners (performers, composers, improvisers), giving insights into the pleasures and perils of working creatively in collaborative and improvised ways.

Viral Loads

Author : Lenore Manderson
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1800080239
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viral Loads written by Lenore Manderson and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the empirical scholarship and research expertise of contributors from all settled continents and from diverse life settings and economies, Viral Loads illustrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, and responses to it, lay bare and load onto people’s lived realities in countries around the world. A crosscutting theme pertains to how social unevenness and gross economic disparities are shaping global and local responses to the pandemic, and illustrate the effects of both the virus and efforts to contain it in ways that amplify these inequalities. At the same time, the contributions highlight the nature of contemporary social life, including virtual communication, the nature of communities, neoliberalism and contemporary political economies, and the shifting nature of nation states and the role of government. Over half of the world’s population has been affected by restrictions of movement, with physical distancing requirements and self-isolation recommendations impacting profoundly on everyday life but also on the economy, resulting also, in turn, with dramatic shifts in the economy and in mass unemployment. By reflecting on how the pandemic has interrupted daily lives, state infrastructures and healthcare systems, the contributing authors in this volume mobilise anthropological theories and concepts to locate the pandemic in a highly connected and exceedingly unequal world. The book is ambitious in its scope – spanning the entire globe – and daring in its insistence that medical anthropology must be a part of the growing calls to build a new world.

Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice

Author : Hillary Haft Bucs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429812000
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice written by Hillary Haft Bucs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice is the first book that compiles practical approaches of the best practices from a range of practitioners on the subject of working with Stanislavski's "objectives," "obstacles," and "tactics." The book offers instructors and directors a variety of tools from leading acting teachers, who bring their own individual perspectives to the challenge of working with Stanislavski's principles for today's actors, in one volume. Each essay addresses its own theoretical and practical approach and offers concrete instructions for implementing new explorations both in the classroom and in the rehearsal studio. An excellent resource for acting and directing instructors at the university level, directing and theatre pedagogy students, high school/secondary theatre teachers, and community theatre leaders, Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice serves as a resource for lesson planning and exploration, and provides an encyclopedia of the best practices in the field today.

Playing for Keeps

Author : Daniel Fischlin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478009128
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Playing for Keeps written by Daniel Fischlin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to Playing for Keeps examine the ways in which musical improvisation can serve as a method for negotiating violence, trauma, systemic inequality, and the aftermaths of war and colonialism. Outlining the relation of improvisatory practices to local and global power structures, they show how in sites as varied as South Africa, Canada, Egypt, the United States, and the Canary Islands, improvisation provides the means for its participants to address the past and imagine the future. In addition to essays, the volume features a poem by saxophonist Matana Roberts, an interview with pianist Vijay Iyer about his work with U.S. veterans of color, and drawings by artist Randy DuBurke that chart Nina Simone's politicization. Throughout, the contributors illustrate how improvisation functions as a model for political, cultural, and ethical dialogue and action that can foster the creation of alternate modes of being and knowing in the world. Contributors. Randy DuBurke, Rana El Kadi, Kevin Fellezs, Daniel Fischlin, Kate Galloway, Reem Abdul Hadi, Vijay Iyer, Mark Lomanno, Moshe Morad, Eric Porter, Sara Ramshaw, Matana Roberts, Darci Sprengel, Paul Stapleton, Odeh Turjman, Stephanie Vos