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Book Synopsis A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation by : John Corbett
Download or read book A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation written by John Corbett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-13 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book of its kind, John Corbett's A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation provides a how-to manual for the most extreme example of spontaneous improvising: music with no pre-planned material at all. Drawing on over three decades of writing about, presenting, playing, teaching, and studying freely improvised music, Corbett offers an enriching set of tools that show any curious listener how to really listen, and he encourages them to enjoy the human impulse-- found all around the world-- to make up music on the spot.
Download or read book Free Improvisation written by Tom Hall and published by Tom Hall. This book was released on 2009 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation by : Ben Watson
Download or read book Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation written by Ben Watson and published by Verso. This book was released on 2004 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifts the lid on an artistic ferment which has defied every known law of the music business.
Book Synopsis The Free Musics by : Jack Wright (Musician)
Download or read book The Free Musics written by Jack Wright (Musician) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been provocative, since it views the situation playersfind themselves in and ignores the perspective of consumers, the media,and academics. It explores their assumptions and practices--their musicalapproach, relations to the music world, to each other, and to the socialorder. It traces the changes in these conditions since the origins ofthese musics. The response to it from musicians has been very strong,many saying it puts their own thoughts into words."--Résumé du site web de l'éditeur.
Book Synopsis Free Jazz and Free Improvisation by : Todd S. Jenkins
Download or read book Free Jazz and Free Improvisation written by Todd S. Jenkins and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The free jazz revolution that began in the mid-1950s represented an artistic and sociopolitical response to the economic, racial, and musical climate of jazz and the nation. In parallel with the American civil rights movement, free jazz exemplified an escape from the restrictive rules of musical performance with an emphasis on individual expression and musical democracy. A handful of major individual artists opened the gateway to intense personalization of performances through astonishing new techniques, and inner-city collectives were formed to support artistic experimentation and community education. Reviled by most critics and jazz fans in its nascence, and still highly misunderstood today, free jazz eventually had a profound influence on subsequent developments in jazz and rock, forever changing the musical landscape. Todd S. Jenkins' handy encyclopedia of free music reflects upon the personalities, styles, organizations, philosophy and politics of a musical form to which too little prior attention has been devoted. Directing readers to outstanding recorded performances, it serves as an essential introduction to this difficult but rewarding music, offering a scholarly historical and cultural overview that provides a critical assessment of one of the most misunderstood periods in American music. Filling many gaps left in previously published literature on the subject, Jenkins's work is a necessary addition to the shelves of music libraries and the collections of jazz aficionados alike.
Download or read book Perpetual Frontier written by Joe Morris and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman by : Stephen Rush
Download or read book Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman written by Stephen Rush and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman discusses Ornette Coleman’s musical philosophy of "Harmolodics," an improvisational system deeply inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. Falling under the guise of "free jazz," Harmolodics can be difficult to understand, even for seasoned musicians and musicologists. Yet this book offers a clear and thorough approach to these complex methods, outlining Coleman’s position as the developer of a logical—and historically significant—system of jazz improvisation. Included here are detailed musical analyses of improvisations, accompanied by full transcriptions. Intimate interviews between the author and Coleman explore the deeper issues at work in Harmolodics, issues of race, class, sex, and poverty. The principle of human equality quickly emerges as a central tenet of Coleman’s life and music. Harmolodics is best understood when viewed in its essential form, both as a theory of improvisation and as an artistic expression of racial and human equality.
Book Synopsis This Is Our Music by : Iain Anderson
Download or read book This Is Our Music written by Iain Anderson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist innovation in other genres, a music of mass consciousness, and the preserve of a cultural elite. This original and provocative book explores who makes decisions about the value of a cultural form and on what basis, taking as its example the impact of 1960s free improvisation on the changing status of jazz. By examining the production, presentation, and reception of experimental music by Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, and others, Iain Anderson traces the strange, unexpected, and at times deeply ironic intersections between free jazz, avant-garde artistic movements, Sixties politics, and patronage networks. Anderson emphasizes free improvisation's enormous impact on jazz music's institutional standing, despite ongoing resistance from some of its biggest beneficiaries. He concludes that attempts by African American artists and intellectuals to define a place for themselves in American life, structural changes in the music industry, and the rise of nonprofit sponsorship portended a significant transformation of established cultural standards. At the same time, free improvisation's growing prestige depended in part upon traditional highbrow criteria: increasingly esoteric styles, changing venues and audience behavior, European sanction, withdrawal from the marketplace, and the professionalization of criticism. Thus jazz music's performers and supporters—and potentially those in other arts—have both challenged and accommodated themselves to an ongoing process of cultural stratification.
Book Synopsis Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz by : Guerino Mazzola
Download or read book Flow, Gesture, and Spaces in Free Jazz written by Guerino Mazzola and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-21 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free jazz, as performed by such artists as John Coltrone and Archie Shepp, is a creative, collaborative art form. This book examines free jazz and develops geometric theories of gestures and distributed identities, also known as swarm intelligence.
Book Synopsis Effortless Mastery by : Kenny Werner
Download or read book Effortless Mastery written by Kenny Werner and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My story -- Why do we play? -- Beyond limited goals -- Fear, the mind and the ego -- Fear-based practicing -- Teaching dysfunctions: fear-based teaching -- Hearing dysfunctions: fear-based listening -- Fear-based composing -- "The space"--"There are no wrong notes" -- Meditation #1 -- Effortless mastery -- Meditation #2 -- Affirmations -- The steps to change -- Step one -- Step two -- Step three -- Step four -- An afterthought -- I am great, I am a master -- Stretching the form -- The spiritual (reprise) -- One final meditation.
Book Synopsis No Sound is Innocent by : Eddie Prévost
Download or read book No Sound is Innocent written by Eddie Prévost and published by Small Press United. This book was released on 1995 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music/culture/politics. Once again in stock, imported from the UK. No Sound is Innocent presents the collected writings -- or 'meta-musical narrative' -- of Edwin Prevost, musician-theoretician and founding member of AMM, perhaps the western world's most long-lived and rigorously engaged improvising band. Since the 60s AMM, involving especially Keith Rowe, John Tilbury, the late composer/theorist Cornelius Cardew, and Lou Gare besides Prevost have attacked established conventions of music-making to arrive at a synthesis of spontaneity, invention and musical praxis of extraordinary interest.
Download or read book Free to Be Musical written by Lee Higgins and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-10-16 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free to Be Musical: Group Improvisation in Music is for those who lead musical experiences in the lives of children, youth, and adults. Offering a set of experiences to inspire creative musical expression, this book will prove useful for music education majors, practicing music teachers, community musicians, and music therapists alike. The experiences (or 'events') are designed to reduce the musical barriers that Western societies pass on to children by the time they reach the 'age of reason,' when the natural childhood penchant to sing, dance, and play musically gives way to perfect performances of standard repertoire preserved in Western staff notation. The authors present ways to encourage music that is expressive and inventive, spontaneous yet thoughtful, communal and collaborative, and unlimited in its potential to bring fulfillment to those who make it. You'll find opportunities to release the musical imagination in ways that are free and expansive, playful and instructive, personal and interpersonal. Higgins and Campbell have created a context that validates the experiments and explorations of all people who are potential makers of all styles of music. Their musical events embrace the belief that music-making is 'a trail of no mistakes,' a celebration of the many and varied musical pathways that both teacher and student can take.
Book Synopsis Beyond Time and Changes by : Hal Crook
Download or read book Beyond Time and Changes written by Hal Crook and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Time and Changes, acclaimed jazz trombonist, pianist, composer, arranger, teacher, and author Hal Crook offers a methodology to guide the advancing improviser through the un-chartered musical territory known as "free jazz."
Book Synopsis Free Play by : Stephen Nachmanovitch
Download or read book Free Play written by Stephen Nachmanovitch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms. An international bestseller and beloved classic, Free Play is an inspiring and provocative book, directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured, and how finally it can be liberated—how we can be liberated—to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice. Stephen Nachmanovitch, a pioneer in free improvisation, integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions of humanity, drawing on unusual quotes, amusing and illuminating anecdotes, and original metaphors. The whole enterprise of improvisation in life and art, of recovering free play and awakening creativity, is about being true to ourselves and our visions. Free Play brings us into direct, active contact with boundless creative energies that we may not even know we had.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Jazz by : Mervyn Cooke
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Jazz written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-09 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz. The book starts by considering what kind of identity jazz has acquired and how, and goes on to discuss the crucial practices that define jazz and to examine some specific moments of historical change and some important issues for jazz study. Finally, it looks at a set of perspectives that illustrate different 'takes' on jazz - ways in which jazz has been valued and represented.
Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Improvisation by : Gary Peters
Download or read book The Philosophy of Improvisation written by Gary Peters and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation is usually either lionized as an ecstatic experience of being in the moment or disparaged as the thoughtless recycling of clichés. Eschewing both of these orthodoxies, The Philosophy of Improvisation ranges across the arts—from music to theater, dance to comedy—and considers the improvised dimension of philosophy itself in order to elaborate an innovative concept of improvisation. Gary Peters turns to many of the major thinkers within continental philosophy—including Heidegger, Nietzsche, Adorno, Kant, Benjamin, and Deleuze—offering readings of their reflections on improvisation and exploring improvisational elements within their thinking. Peters’s wry, humorous style offers an antidote to the frequently overheated celebration of freedom and community that characterizes most writing on the subject. Expanding the field of what counts as improvisation, The Philosophy of Improvisation will be welcomed by anyone striving to comprehend the creative process.
Book Synopsis Free Jazz and Free Improvisation by : Todd S. Jenkins
Download or read book Free Jazz and Free Improvisation written by Todd S. Jenkins and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The free jazz revolution that began in the 1950s has had a profound influence on both jazz & rock music. Widely misunderstood & even reviled by critics, free jazz represented an artistic & sociopolitical response to the economic, racial, & musical climate of America.
