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Book Synopsis Improvising on Classical Masterpieces by : Bruce Arnold
Download or read book Improvising on Classical Masterpieces written by Bruce Arnold and published by muse eek publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Improvising over Classical Music. The examples in the book were recorded by Spooky Actions, a New York based ensemble created by John Gunther and Bruce Arnold. Spooky Actions has produced a diverse set of recordings include the music of 20th century composers Anton Webern, Arnold Schoenberg and Olivier Messiaen; interpretations of Native American music Volume One and Volume Two, and well as a recording of Early Music from the 2nd century BC through the 1500’s. Their unique and compelling sound is being met with critical acclaim and widespread interest.
Book Synopsis The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation by : John J. Mortensen
Download or read book The Pianist's Guide to Historic Improvisation written by John J. Mortensen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is for pianists who wish to improvise. Many will be experienced performers - perhaps even veteran concert artists - who are nevertheless beginners at improvisation. This contradiction is a reflection of our educational system. Those who attend collegiate music schools spend nearly all time and effort on learning, perfecting, and reciting masterpieces from the standard repertoire. As far as I can remember, no one ever taught or advocated for improvisation during my decade as a student in music schools. Certainly no one ever improvised anything substantial in a concert (except for the jazz musicians, who were, I regret to say, a separate division and generally viewed with complete indifference by the classical community). Nor did any history professor mention that, long ago, improvisation was commonplace and indeed an indispensable skill for much of the daily activity of a working musician. I continue to dedicate a portion of my career to "perfecting and reciting" masterpieces of the repertoire, and teaching my students to do the same. That tradition is dear to me. Still, if I have one regret about my traditional education, it's that it wasn't traditional enough. We have forgotten that in the eighteenth century - those hundred years that form the bedrock of classical music - improvisation was a foundation of music training. Oddly, our discipline has discarded a practice that helped bring it into being. Perhaps it is time to retrieve it from the junk heap of history and give it a good dusting off. I love the legends of the improvisational powers of the masters: Bach creating elaborate fugues on the spot, or Beethoven humiliating Daniel Steibelt by riffing upon and thereby exposing the weakness of the latter's inferior tunes. The stories implied that these abilities were instances of inexplicable genius which we could admire in slack-jawed wonder but never emulate. But that isn't right. Bach could improvise fugues not because he was unique but because almost any properly-trained keyboard player in his day could. Even mediocre talents could improvise mediocre fugues. Bach was exceptionally good at something which pretty much everyone could do at a passable level. They could all do it because it was built into their musical thinking from the very beginning of their training"--
Book Synopsis Improvisation Step by Step by : Misha V. Stefanuk
Download or read book Improvisation Step by Step written by Misha V. Stefanuk and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches the improvisation of classical piano music through a step-by-step method including the use of chord tone approaches, scales, arpeggios, non-chord tones, motivic development, ornamentation, modulation, stylistic variation, and more. By practicing simple tasks the pianist escapes the mental pressure of performing on the spot and develops the ease and freedom of improvising in classical styles. This book also includes 7 variations on a theme by Beethoven illustrating the improvisational concept and technique. Includes CD.
Book Synopsis Classical Masterpieces for Electric Guitar by : David Nadal
Download or read book Classical Masterpieces for Electric Guitar written by David Nadal and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous and popular selections include works by Bach, Sor, Clementi, Byrd, Rameau, Grieg, Moussourgsky, and Paganini. Tablature, historical notes, and performance tips appear with each piece.
Book Synopsis Improvisation for Classical Musicians by : Eugene Friesen
Download or read book Improvisation for Classical Musicians written by Eugene Friesen and published by Berklee Press Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Berklee Guide). Learn the creative mindset and acquire the technical tools necessary for improvisation. These concepts and exercises will help you to discover a deeper source of music making, a greater quality of authenticity, and a discernable change in sound and phrasing that will enhance your performances of written music. You will learn to play by ear, apply musical theory to your instrument, and engage creatively with the elements of music, giving you a long menu of musical options. The accompanying recording includes demonstration and play-along tracks. You will learn: tools to connect melodic imagination to your instrument, with an enhanced sense of physicality; how to use scales, chords, modes, progressions, and other structures in your improvisation; a broad rhythm vocabulary; improvisation techniques for standard progressions, such as blues and II V's; to create richer lines by using approach notes, neighbor tones, and embellishments into an improvised melodic line.
Book Synopsis Jazz Improvisation for the Classical Pianist by : Martan Mann
Download or read book Jazz Improvisation for the Classical Pianist written by Martan Mann and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will show you how to start improvising, how to build your musical vocabulary, and how to build that important subconscious mind-to-hand link. If you like jazz and if you want to improvise, this method is the most natural, effective way to learn.
Book Synopsis The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue by : Bruce Ellis Benson
Download or read book The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue written by Bruce Ellis Benson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of music. Bruce Benson's concern is the phenomenology of music making as an activity. He offers a radical thesis that it is improvisation that is primary in the moment of music making.It will be a provocative read.
Book Synopsis Musical Improvisation and Open Forms in the Age of Beethoven by : Gianmario Borio
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 2017-12-14 with total page 389 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.
Book Synopsis Piano Improvisation by : Myriam Hunink
Download or read book Piano Improvisation written by Myriam Hunink and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piano improvisation is playing with music - playing in the true sense of the word. It is a game: set yourself some rules and be as creative as possible within that framework of restrictions. This book is a guide on how to improvise. Whereas most books on piano improvisation explain jazz and blues, the focus here is on minimalistic and classical music. The book contains some exercises to get you started and appendices with the most important information about keys, scales, chords, harmony, melody, and rhythm to help you. The main part of the book consists of 21 examples: a short description, a recipe for an improvisation, an example chord progression, suggestions on how to further expand on the recipe, and a short piece in music notation illustrating the basic idea. You can play each piece as written but the intention is that you explore variations and add in your own ingredients and flavors. I hope the presented ideas will inspire you.
Book Synopsis Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians by : Jeffrey Agrell
Download or read book Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians written by Jeffrey Agrell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why don't classical musicians improvise? Why do jazz players get to have all the fun? And how do they develop such fabulous technique and aural skills? With these words, Jeffrey Agrell opens the door to improvisation for all non-jazz musicians who thought it was beyond their ability to play extemporaneously. Step-by-step, Agrell leads through a series of games, rather than exercises. The game format takes the pressure off of classically trained musicians, steering them away from their fixation on mistake-free performance and introducing the basic concepts of playing with music itself instead of obsessing over a perfect rendition of a written score. Agrell draws an analogy with sports that illustrates the absurdity of the traditional approach to classically-oriented music performance.
Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of Piano Improvisation in Western Classical Music Performance by : Joshua Vigran
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Piano Improvisation in Western Classical Music Performance written by Joshua Vigran and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation is an art form which has arguably been present since the existence of music itself. Inventing music on the spot, like spontaneous speech, is a common expression of artistry throughout history and across musical boundaries. While improvisation has maintained its importance in jazz, classical organ music and the music of many eastern cultures, this dissertation will focus on the presence of improvisation as acceptable performance practice within the tradition of western classical music. At several points in history, this musical tradition was encouraged and even expected to be a regular part of a musician's life, and yet in the classical music tradition of the twenty-first century, improvisation is rarely, if ever, heard from the concert stage, nor is it regularly included in the general education of the conservatory student.
Book Synopsis 15 Classical Masterpieces with Added Second Piano Parts by : Sylvia Rabinof
Download or read book 15 Classical Masterpieces with Added Second Piano Parts written by Sylvia Rabinof and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pianist and composer Sylvia Rabinof has written beautiful accompaniments to 15 masterpieces from the world's most celebrated composers. Intermediate to Early Advanced; for two pianos, four hands. Titles: * Musette from Notebook for Anna Magdalena (Bach) * Minuet in G Major from Notebook for Anna Magdalena (Bach) * Minuet in G Minor from Notebook for Anna Magdalena (Bach) * Für Elise (Beethoven) * Chaconne on Air "Dido’s Lament" from Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) * Ländler in D Major (Beethoven) * Ländler in A Minor (Schubert) * The Happy Farmer (Schumann) * Pour le Lute (Little Prelude No. 3 in C Minor) (Bach) * Invention No. 8 in F Major (Bach) * Solfeggietto (C. P. E. Bach) * Rondo Alla Turca from Sonata in A Major, K. 331 (Mozart) * Invention No. 13 in A Minor (Bach) Clair de Lune from Suite bergamasque (Debussy) * Sonata in C Major, K. 545 (First Movement) (Mozart). 88 pages.
Download or read book Beyond Notes written by Rudolf Rasch and published by LIM. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation is an important aspect of music, not only in jazz and other 'improvised music', but also of classical music. Pianists may add improvised interludes to their recitals and cadenzas to a concerto they perform. They may conclude their recitals by playing compositions composed on the spot, freely invented or on themes handed to them by the public. Violinists and other instrumentalists may do the same. Singers may add embellishments to their arias which are not notated in their scores, a practice widely spread in nineteenth-century opera. For the listener it may perhaps not make very much difference whether or not what he hears is improvised or composed, but for the performer it does, of course. In fact, the improviser shows that he is a real master of the art: he can do at once, without preparation, what others can do only with preparation. But there is also a genre of written compositions which is supposed to sound as improvisations, especially those entitled Improvisation, Fantasy, Impromptu, Prelude, and so forth. Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries brings together twenty essays that do confirm the many sides of the concept of 'improvisation' and the wide range of approaches that can be taken to it. Because of the collective nature of this volume, the approaches do indeed vary greatly. Some contributions deal with improvisation from the conceptual point of view: what really is improvisation? Others deal with certain repertoires, or with specific examples. Some deal with improvised additions, others with improvisational aspects of written compositions. The contribution on the improvisations of the French organist Louis Vierne deals directly with recorded improvisations. The contribution on the flute-cadenza in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor encompasses recorded material, but this was rather semi-improvisational, prepared certainly, but not necessarily notated and not necessarily performed identically every time. Contemporary descriptions of improvisations are found in contributions on Italian music theorists and musicians in general, and in those on composers such as Hummel, Paganini, Beriot, Clara Wieck Schumann, Czerny, Liszt and Henselt. Compositions in improvisatory style are discussed in several of these contributions and in one on nineteenth-century Hungarian or so-called 'Gypsy' music. Ad libitum ornamentation is discussed in relation to Tartini's violin sonatas and nineteenth-century operatic arias. Other contributions discuss the instability that is a property of nearly all music or the migration of motives and schemes from one composition to another, processes that pave the way for improvised additions. Several contributions provide theoretical reflections on improvisation. Beyond Notes: Improvisation in Western Music of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries contains contributions by Carmela Bongiovanni (Genoa), Philippe Borer (Boudry, Switzerland), Rogerio Budasz (Riverside, California), Vincenzo Caporaletti (Rome), Gregorio Carraro (Padoa), Simone Ciolfi (Rome), Damien Colas (Paris), Mariateresa Dellaborra (Pavia), Raffaele Di Mauro (Rome), Martin Edin (Stockholm), Valerie Woodring Goertzen (New Orleans), Martin Kaltenecker (Paris), John Lutterman (Walla Walla, Washington), Naomi Matsumoto (London), Laura Moeckli (Bern), Csilla Petho-Vernet (Paris), Rudolf Rasch (Utrecht), Renato Ricco (Salerno), Rohan Stewart-MacDonald (Cambridge), and Steven Young (Bridgewater, Massachusetts).
Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Book Synopsis 12 Easy Classical Masterpieces for Solo Guitar by : Steve Peplin
Download or read book 12 Easy Classical Masterpieces for Solo Guitar written by Steve Peplin and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn 12 easy classical masterpieces for solo guitar! All songs are arranged in standard notation and tab! Plus, chord symbols and streamlined fingerings are used so songs can be learned more easily but still sound like masterpieces! All songs are presented in standard notation and the easy-to-follow and popular tab format so you'll be able to quickly teach yourself a dozen timeless classical masterpieces by composers like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin, among others. From master guitarist and educator Steve Peplin, this is the ultimate guitar songbook for learning classical masterpieces. Each song is arranged with the beginner and intermediate guitarists in mind. Yet, even seasoned six-string vets will find the songs fun to play! BONUS Includes customer support! Questions during practice? Email us from our website and we will happily help you. You won't find this benefit anywhere else! This easy-to-follow classical guitar songbook provides guitarists with easy arrangements that include standard notation,tab, and chord symbols. The Song List: Caprice No. 24 (Paganini) Clair de Lune (Debussy) Contessa Perdono (Mozart) Fur Elise (Beethoven) Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) Jupiter (Holst) Lullaby (Brahms) Mazurka in A Minor (Chopin) Minuet in G Major (Bach) Morning Mood (Grieg) Ode to Joy (Beethoven) Prelude in C Minor (Chopin) REMEMBER Free access to instant audio downloads from the Troy Nelson Music website included with this classical music book. This guitar songbook includes popular classical repertoire in sheet music form. From master guitarist and university educator Steve Peplin 12 Easy Classical Masterpieces for Solo Guitar is arranged how Steve would want to learn classical repertoire. Steve has taught jazz and classical guitar at every level, from private lessons to university-level masterclasses. Thanks for the 5-star reviews! Steve Peplin is an adjunct professor of jazz guitar at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and a full-time instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College, where he teaches composition, guitar, improvisation, orchestration, and more. He earned an associate's degree in Music Occupations from MATC in 1993, under master jazz guitarist Jack Grassel, and a bachelor's degree in Traditional Composition from Berklee College of Music in 1996. In addition to teaching, Steve is a member of several bands, including Strangelander, Dinosaur Rocket, Invocation Trio, the Lawrence University Faculty Jazz Ensemble, and others.
Book Synopsis Forging Pathways to Improvise Music by : Joseph Montelione
Download or read book Forging Pathways to Improvise Music written by Joseph Montelione and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step resource on forging one’s own pathway to improvise music, this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the reader’s genre of choice. Many musicians struggle with improvisation. Coincidentally, educators also find it challenging to integrate improvisation into curriculum. This book breaks down the barriers most performers and educators combat in the learning and teaching of improvisation, and is a helpful approach to demystify the complicated sphere of music improvisation. Divided into three sections, the first part of the book helps the reader develop an improvisatorial mindset to mentally conceive musical ideas, regardless of genre. The second portion then connects the improviser’s mindset to translating those ideas into a compelling musical performance in real time. The book’s final third assists the reader with discovering how to apply this method of improvisation to the nuanced liturgical, comedic, jazz, and classical styles. Forging Pathways to Improvise Music offers a practical introduction to improvisational methods essential for educators, students, and musicians of diverse educational backgrounds and musical genres.
Book Synopsis Museum Masterpieces, Book 4 by : Catherine Rollin
Download or read book Museum Masterpieces, Book 4 written by Catherine Rollin and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Museum Masterpieces, Book 4, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *At the Front (George Cochran Lambdin) *Dancers (Theo van Doesburg) *Dancers, Pink and Green (Edgar Degas) *Improvisation (Childe Hassam) *The Kiss (Gustav Klimt) *States of Mind: The Farewells (Umberto Boccioni) *Summer (Thomas Dewing) *Watson and the Shark (John Singleton Copley)
