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Improvise Freely

Author : Patti Stiles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780645176506
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Improvise Freely written by Patti Stiles and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation is an art of spontaneity, freedom and impulse. Audiences the world over flock to shows where anything could happen! But lurking at the heart of many companies that perform it is a contradiction, a bait and switch. Students who sign up for classes are taught 'The Rules': the strictly right and wrong way to play make-believe. How the hell did that happen?Patti Stiles is an actor, improvisor, director, teacher and playwright who has worked professionally in theatre since 1983. In Improvise Freely, she turns 'The Rules' of improvising on their head and shows that there is another way. Is it okay to ask questions? Why do we Who? What? Where? And what if it's time to say 'No thanks' to 'Yes And'?

A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation

Author : John Corbett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022635380X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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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.

Improvise for Real

Author : David Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984686360
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Improvise for Real written by David Reed and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvise for Real is a step-by-step method that teaches you to improvise your own music through progressive exercises that anyone can do. You'll learn to understand the sounds in the music all around you. And you'll learn to express your own musical ideas exactly as you hear them in your mind. The method starts with very simple creative exercises that you can begin right away. As you progress, the method leads you on a guided tour through the entire world of modern harmony. You will be improvising your own original melodies from the very first day, and your knowledge will expand with each practice session as you explore and discover our musical system for yourself. Improvise for Real brings together creativity, ear training, music theory and physical technique into a single creative daily practice that will show you the entire path to improvisation mastery. You will learn to understand the sounds in the music all around you and to improvise with confidence over jazz standards, blues songs, pop music or any other style you would like to play. And you'll be jamming, enjoying yourself and creating your own music every step of the way. The method is open to all instruments and ability levels. The exercises are easy to understand and fun to practice. There is no sight reading required, and you don't need to know anything about music theory to begin. Already being used by both students and teachers in more than 20 countries, Improvise for Real is now considered by many people to be the definitive system for learning to improvise. If you have always dreamed of truly understanding music and being able to improvise with complete freedom on your instrument, this is the book for you

Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

Author : Ben Watson
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781684898
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation written by Ben Watson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance band and record-session guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began playing an uncompromisingly abstract form of music. Today his anti-idiom of "Free Improvisation" has become the lingua franca of the "avant" scene, with Pat Metheny, John Zorn, David Sylvian and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore among his admirers.

Composing Matters

Author : Patrick Allen
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435811822
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Composing Matters written by Patrick Allen and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series encourages composition work with skill-based activities and projects for Key Stage 3 pupils, focusing on integrating composing with performing, listening and appraising. The pupil book contains composition projects, from poetry to stories and pictures, with suggested frameworks.

Free Improvisation

Author : Tom Hall
Publisher : Tom Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780615328621
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (286 download)

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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:

Fantasies of Improvisation

Author : Dana Gooley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190633603
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 Gooley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 313 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."

Lee Konitz

Author : Andy Hamilton
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472032174
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Lee Konitz written by Andy Hamilton and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007-08-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Joe Lovano, an oral biography of the preeminent alto saxophonist of cool jazz

Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance

Author : Anthony Frost
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350316245
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance written by Anthony Frost and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation is a tool for many things: performance training, rehearsal practice, playwriting, therapeutic interaction and somatic discovery. This book opens up the significance of improvisation across cultures, histories and ways of performing our life, offering key insights into the what, the how and the why of performance. It traces the origins of improvisation and its influences, both as a social and political phenomenon and its position in performance training. Including history, theory and practice, this new edition encompasses Theatre and performance studies as well as drama, acknowledging the rapid reconfiguration of these fields in recent years. Its coverage also now extends to improvisation in the USA, cinema, LARPing, street events and the improvising audience, while also looking at improv's relationship to stand-up comedy, jazz, poetry and free movement practices. With an index of exercises and an extensive bibliography, this book is indispensable to students of improvisation.

Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisation

Author : Dave Allen
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1513470035
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisation written by Dave Allen and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Rhythmic Concepts for Improvisation offers the advancing student a method to expand their rhythmic vocabulary and explore some of the more challenging aspects of the modern jazz idiom. It puts rhythm and time-feel front and center, and offers techniques for strengthening your inner metronome, enhancing your time-feel, expanding your rhythmic flexibility, and especially, learning how to improvise fluently in odd meters. The book includes over 120 audio tracks, with 52 backing tracks featuring a superb rhythm section for the student to play along with. There are multiple examples of grooves in each meter, as well as multi-meter exercises, arrangements of standards, an exploration of triplet groupings, polyrhythmic exercises, and full compositions. Includes access to online audio.

Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy in Music

Author : Guro Gravem Johansen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351199935
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy in Music written by Guro Gravem Johansen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the Space for Improvisation Pedagogy in Music is a critical, research-based anthology exploring improvisation in music pedagogy. The book broadens the understanding of the potentials and possibilities for improvisation in a variety of music education contexts and stimulates the development of knowledge and reflection on improvisation. The book critically examines the challenges, cultural values, aims and methods involved in improvisation pedagogy. Written by international contributors representing a variety of musical genres and research methodologies, it takes a transdisciplinary approach and outlines a way ahead for improvisation pedagogy and research, by providing a space for the exchange of knowledge and critique. This book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of arts education, music education, improvisation, music psychology, musicology, ethnomusicology, artistic research and community music. It will also appeal to music educators on all levels in the field of music education and music psychology.

The Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy

Author : Jane Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191035998
Total Pages : 1119 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy written by Jane Edwards and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 1119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music therapy is growing internationally to be one of the leading evidence-based psychosocial allied health professions, meeting needs right across the lifespan. Music therapy is a relational therapy in which the therapist and client collaborate to discover how music can be used to strengthen positive relating skills, attending to the client's immediate and longer term needs through assessment, treatment planning, implementation, and evaluation of a music therapy programme. Music therapy is based upon the capacity of music provided by a trained and qualified practitioner to support, integrate, and heal trauma, pain, psychological distress, and to develop and extend the existing capacities of the client. In the Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy, international leaders in the field from 10 countries have contributed their expertise to showcase contemporary music therapy. They share knowledgable perspectives from multiple models of music therapy that have developed throughout the world, including Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, The Field of Play, Community Music Therapy, and Resource Oriented Music Therapy. There is extensive information provided as to how music therapists practice and with whom, as well as the techniques used in music therapy individually and in groups, the research basis for the work, and professional and training issues in the field. The book is clearly laid out in five sections; contexts and populations, models and approaches, methods and techniques, research methods, and training and professional issues. Course materials can be structured around the book, or the book can be used as a starting point for students' learning about a model or population. Music therapy students will enjoy the clear descriptions of practice, the clinical vignettes, and the helpful pointers and tips for developing placement work. Unequalled in depth and breadth, this landmark publication is an essential resource for those starting out in Music Therapy, as well as for experienced practitioners.

Free to be Creative at the Piano

Author :
Publisher : New Age Piano Lessons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free to be Creative at the Piano written by and published by New Age Piano Lessons. This book was released on with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Moving Experience (for Time to Begin)

Author : Jeanine Jacobson
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780874879483
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book A Moving Experience (for Time to Begin) written by Jeanine Jacobson and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes of A Moving Experience are correlated to The Music Tree series by Frances Clark and Louise Goss. In fact, a majority of the games are based on specific pieces from this series. The games can also be easily adapted to any other beginning piano method. The activities presented are based on many facets of music, including: establishing a steady pulse * distinguishing between quarter notes and half notes * distinguishing between higher and lower * repeated notes * loud and soft * phrases * staccato and legato * tempo * syncopation and many more concepts.

The Music Sound

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6042 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Music Sound written by Nicolae Sfetcu and published by Nicolae Sfetcu. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 6042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video. Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, loudness, and duration. Common terms used to discuss particular pieces include melody, which is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord, which is a simultaneity of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord progression, which is a succession of chords (simultaneity succession); harmony, which is the relationship between two or more pitches; counterpoint, which is the simultaneity and organization of different melodies; and rhythm, which is the organization of the durational aspects of music.

From Beethoven to Shostakovich - The Psychology of the Composing Process

Author : Max Graf
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473384095
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book From Beethoven to Shostakovich - The Psychology of the Composing Process written by Max Graf and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating book for any fan of classical music and the composers that have created some of the most marvelous symphonies, but how did certain people create these quantum leaps in music single handedly? With this classic text discover how people thought the mind of a musical genius worked.

Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist

Author : Marc Ribot
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617759481
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist written by Marc Ribot and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paperback edition of iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot’s darkly funny and subversive collection of writing, featuring brand-new essays not included in the hardcover. “A slim yet powerful book in which Marc Ribot blends bits of memoir with strange little fictions, many of which are based on his own life and career.” —Wall Street Journal Throughout his genre-defying career as one of the most innovative musicians of our time, iconoclastic guitar player Marc Ribot has consistently defied expectation at every turn. Here, in the expanded paperback edition of Ribot’s first collection of writing, we see that same uncompromising sensibility at work as he playfully interrogates our assumptions about music, life, and death. Through essays—including some new material not included in the hardcover—short stories, and the occasional unfilmable film “mistreatment” that showcase the sheer range of his voice, Unstrung captures an artist whose versatility on the page rivals his dexterity onstage. In the first section of the book, "Lies and Distortion," Ribot turns his attention to his instrument--"my relation to the guitar is one of struggle; I'm constantly forcing it to be something else"--and reflects on his influences (and friends) like Robert Quine (the Voidoids) and producer Hal Willner (Saturday Night Live), while delivering an impassioned plea on behalf of artists' rights. Elsewhere, we glimpse fragments of Ribot's life as a traveling musician--he captures both the monotony of touring as well as small moments of beauty and despair on the road. In the heart of the collection, "Sorry, We're Experiencing Technical Difficulties," Ribot offers wickedly humorous short stories that synthesize the best elements of the Russian absurdist tradition with the imaginative heft of George Saunders. Taken together, these stories and essays cement Ribot's position as one of the most dynamic and creative voices of our time.