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The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music

Author : Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316298299
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music by : Anna Maria Busse Berger

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music written by Anna Maria Busse Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.

Musical Creativity

Author : Guerino Mazzola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 364224517X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Musical Creativity written by Guerino Mazzola and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a new approach to musical creativity, dealing with the semiotics, mathematical principles, and software for creativity processes. After a thorough introduction, the book offers a first practical part with a detailed tutorial for students in composition and improvisation, using musical instruments and music software. The second, theoretical part deals with historical, actual, and new principles of creative processes in music, based on the results and methods developed in the first author’s book Topos of Music and referring to semiotics, predicative objects, topos theory, and object-oriented concept architectures. The third part of the book details four case studies in musical creativity, including an analysis of the six variations of Beethoven's sonata op. 109, a discussion of the creative process in a CD coproduced in 2011 by the first and second authors, a recomposition of Boulez’s "Structures pour deux pianos" using the Rubato software module BigBang developed by the third author, and the Escher theorem from mathematical gesture theory in music. This is both a textbook addressed to undergraduate and graduate students of music composition and improvisation, and also a state-of-the-art survey addressed to researchers in creativity studies and music technology. The book contains summaries and end-of-chapter questions, and the authors have used the book as the main reference to teach an undergraduate creativity studies program and also to teach composition. The text is supported throughout with musical score examples.

Sylistic Etudes

Author : John Novello
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sylistic Etudes written by John Novello and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Instructional). The author of the critically acclaimed "bible" of contemporary keyboard playing, The Contemporary Keyboardist , now brings students 86 studies that cover 17 contemporary keyboard styles jazz, rock, funk, Latin, country, stride, blues, pop, gospel, and many more. This pack includes notes on playing, and both a CD and a General MIDI disk featuring recordings of each etude for the student to play along with.

Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness

Author : Edward W. Sarath
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143844723X
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness written by Edward W. Sarath and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz, America's original art form, can be a catalyst for creative and spiritual development. With its unique emphasis on improvisation, jazz offers new paradigms for educational and societal change. In this provocative book, musician and educator Edward W. Sarath illuminates how jazz offers a continuum for transformation. Inspired by the long legacy of jazz innovators who have used meditation and related practices to bring the transcendent into their lives and work, Sarath sees a coming shift in consciousness, one essential to positive change. Both theoretical and practical, the book uses the emergent worldview known as Integral Theory to discuss the consciousness at the heart of jazz and the new models and perspectives it offers. On a more personal level, the author provides examples of his own involvement in educational reform. His design of the first curriculum at a mainstream educational institution to incorporate a significant meditation and consciousness studies component grounds a radical new vision.

Generative Processes in Music

Author : John Sloboda
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198508465
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Generative Processes in Music written by John Sloboda and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where most of the literature in the psychology of music has focused on the processes involved when listening to music, little has been written about the processes involved in making music. Reissued by popular demand, and for the first time in paperback, Generative Processes: The Psychology of Performance, Improvisation, and Composition brings together leading figures in music psychology to present pioneering studies of the processes by which music is generated. The book looks at the generation of expression in musical performance, the problems of synchrony in ensemble performance, the development of children's song, rehearsal strategies of pianists, improvisational skill in trained and untrained musicians, children's spontaneous notations for music, formal constraints on compositional systems, and compositional strategies of music students. Edited by the leading authority on music psychology, the book will be of great interest to cognitive and developmental psychologists, as well as music educators and musicologists

Music Theory Through Improvisation

Author : Ed Sarath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113521526X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Music Theory Through Improvisation written by Ed Sarath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for Music Theory courses, Music Theory Through Improvisation presents a unique approach to basic theory and musicianship training that examines the study of traditional theory through the art of improvisation. The book follows the same general progression of diatonic to non-diatonic harmony in conventional approaches, but integrates improvisation, composition, keyboard harmony, analysis, and rhythm. Conventional approaches to basic musicianship have largely been oriented toward study of common practice harmony from the Euroclassical tradition, with a heavy emphasis in four-part chorale writing. The author’s entirely new pathway places the study of harmony within improvisation and composition in stylistically diverse format, with jazz and popular music serving as important stylistic sources. Supplemental materials include a play-along audio in the downloadable resources for improvisation and a companion website with resources for students and instructors.

Playing with Something that Runs

Author : Mark Jonathan Butler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195393627
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Playing with Something that Runs written by Mark Jonathan Butler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as records and digital samples to create extended improvisations. Analysis of these technologically mediated performances reveals a complex dynamic in which a modular approach to musical structure enables flexible adaptation and transformation of seemingly 'fixed' products in live contexts. This book covers the following topics: ontology; interface design and liveness in performance; the interaction of the preexistent and the novel within improvisation; and musical design as performative technology.

Improvisation and Composition in Balinese Gendér Wayang

Author : Nicholas Gray
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409418320
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Improvisation and Composition in Balinese Gendér Wayang written by Nicholas Gray and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monografie over improvisatie en compositie in 'gendér wayang', een stijl van gamelanmuziek die gespeeld wordt op Bali.

Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment

Author : Michael Titlebaum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367854751
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (547 download)

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Book Synopsis Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment by : Michael Titlebaum

Download or read book Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment written by Michael Titlebaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment teaches fundamental concepts of jazz improvisation, highlighting the development of performance skills through embellishment techniques. Written with the college-level course in mind, this introductory textbook is both practical and comprehensive, ideal for the aspiring improviser, focused not on scales and chords but melodic embellishment. It assumes some basic theoretical knowledge and level of musicianship while introducing multiple techniques, mindful that improvisation is a learned skill as dependent on hard work and organized practice as it is on innate talent. This jargon-free textbook can be used in both self-guided study and as a course book, fortified by an array of interactive exercises and activities: musical examples performance exercises written assignments practice grids resources for advanced study and more! Nearly all musical exercises--presented throughout the text in concert pitch and transposed in the appendices for E-flat, B-flat, and bass clef instruments--are accompanied by backing audio tracks, available for download via the Routledge catalog page along with supplemental instructor resources such as a sample syllabus, PDFs of common transpositions, and tutorials for gear set-ups. With music-making at its core, Jazz Improvisation Using Simple Melodic Embellishment implores readers to grab their instruments and play, providing musicians with the simple melodic tools they need to "jazz it up."

The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz

Author : Floris Schuiling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351254367
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Book Synopsis The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz by : Floris Schuiling

Download or read book The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz written by Floris Schuiling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Instant Composers Pool and Improvisation Beyond Jazz contributes to the expansion and diversification of our understanding of the jazz tradition by describing the history and practice of one of the most important non-American jazz groups: The Instant Composers Pool, founded in Amsterdam in 1967. The Instant Composers Pool describes the meaning of "instant composition" from both a historical and ethnographic perspective. Historically, it details instant composition’s emergence from the encounter between various overlapping transnational avant-gardes, including free jazz, serialism, experimental music, electronic music, and Fluxus. The author shows how the improvising musicians not only engaged with the cultural politics of ethnicity and race involved in the negotiation of the boundaries of jazz as a cultural practice, but transformed the meaning of music in society—particularly the nature of improvisation and performance. Ethnographically, The Instant Composers Pool encourages readers to reconsider the conceptual tools we use to describe music performance, improvisation, and creativity. It takes the practice of "instant composition" as an opportunity to reflect on music performance as a social practice, which is crucial not only for jazz studies, but for general music scholarship.

Being Music

Author : Mark Miller
Publisher : University Professors Press
ISBN 13 : 1939686687
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Being Music written by Mark Miller and published by University Professors Press. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation is a practice of musical exploration and discovery. What we explore is our lived experience and what we discover we share with our audience. As improvisers, our creative resources include sense perception, imagination, somatic presence, and the vitality of emotional expression. In collaboration we develop relationships that serve the music and balance the priorities of self and others in the ensemble. Being Music describes the craft of improvisation as “spontaneous composition” including an awareness of form, compositional focus, theme and development, stillness and creative flow. Miller and Lande address the problem of perfectionism and offer strategies for overcoming judgmental thinking and other obstacles to creative spontaneity. Abundant written musical examples and exercises offer the reader ample opportunity to practice the principles outlined in the text. With over forty-five years of experience performing together, Miller and Lande's dialogical reflections on creativity and community offer a clear and practical guide to the creative process of improvisation for musicians of any style or genre, and at all levels of experience.

Sudden Music

Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820323187
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Sudden Music written by David Rothenberg and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The accompanying audio disc features eleven original compositions by Rothenberg, none previously released on CD. Included are a duet with clarinet and white-crested laughing bird and a duet with clarinet and Samchillian TipTipTip Cheeepeeeee, and electronic computer instrument played by its inventor, Leon Gruenbaum. Also featured are multicultural works blending South Indian veena and Turkish G-clarinet with spoken text from the Upanishads; a piece commissioned by the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival with readings of texts by E.O. Wilson accompanied by clarinet and electronics; and improvisations based on Tibetan Buddhist music, Japanese shakuhachi music, and the image of a black crow on white snow."--BOOK JACKET.

The Act of Musical Composition

Author : Dave Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317045572
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Act of Musical Composition written by Dave Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of musical composition has been marked by a didactic, technique-based approach, focusing on the understanding of musical language and grammar -harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and arrangement - or on generic and stylistic categories. In the field of the psychology of music, the study of musical composition, even in the twenty-first century, remains a poor cousin to the literature which relates to musical perception, music performance, musical preferences, musical memory and so on. Our understanding of the compositional process has, in the main, been informed by anecdotal after-the-event accounts or post hoc analyses of composition. The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process presents the first coherent exploration around this unique aspect of human creative activity. The central threads, or key themes - compositional process, creative thinking and problem-solving - are integrated by the combination of theoretical understandings of creativity with innovative empirical work.

Improvisation and Composition in Balinese Gendér Wayang

Author : Nicholas Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351928309
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Improvisation and Composition in Balinese Gendér Wayang written by Nicholas Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of the music of the Balinese gendér wayang, the quartet of metallophones - gendér - that accompanies the Balinese shadow puppet play - wayang kulit. The book focuses on processes of musical variation, the main means of creating new music in this genre, and the implications of these processes for the social and historical study of Balinese music, musical aesthetics, concepts of creativity and compositional methods. Dr Nick Gray tackles a number of core ethnomusicological concerns in a new way, including the relationship between composition and improvisation, and also highlights issues specific to Balinese music, including the importance of flexibility in performance, an aspect that has been largely ignored by scholars. Gray thus breaks new ground both in the study of issues relating to improvisation and composition and in Balinese music studies.

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.

Improvising Early Music

Author : Rob C. Wegman
Publisher : Presses Universitaires de Louvain - UCL
ISBN 13 : 9789058679970
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Improvising Early Music written by Rob C. Wegman and published by Presses Universitaires de Louvain - UCL. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, three experts give their view on aspects of musical improvisation in the late medieval, renaissance, and early baroque periods.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts

Author : Alessandro Bertinetto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100039784X
Total Pages : 1133 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts written by Alessandro Bertinetto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 1133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art. This Handbook offers readers an authoritative collection of accessible articles on the philosophy of improvisation, synthesizing and explaining various subjects and issues from the growing wave of journal articles and monographs in the field. Its 48 chapters, written specifically for this volume by an international team of scholars, are accessible for students and researchers alike. The volume is organized into four main sections: I Art and Improvisation: Theoretical Perspectives II Art and Improvisation: Aesthetical, Ethical, and Political Perspectives III Improvisation in Musical Practices IV Improvisation in the Visual, Narrative, Dramatic, and Interactive Arts Key Features: Treats improvisation not only as a stylistic feature, but also as an aesthetic property of artworks and performances as well as a core element of artistic creativity. Spells out multiple aspects of the concept of improvisation, emphasizing its relevance in understanding the nature of art. Covers improvisation in a wide spectrum of artistic domains, including unexpected ones such as literature, visual arts, games, and cooking. Addresses key questions, such as: - How can improvisation be defined and what is its role in different art forms? - Can improvisation be perceived as such, and how can it be aesthetically evaluated? - What is the relationship between improvisation and notions such as action, composition, expressivity, and authenticity? - What is the ethical and political significance of improvisation?