Improvise Freely

Improvise Freely
Author: Patti Stiles
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9780645176506
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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

A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation
Author: John Corbett
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2016-03-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 022635380X
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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

Improvise for Real
Author: David Reed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2013-02-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9780984686360
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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

Free Improvisation

Free Improvisation
Author: Tom Hall
Publisher: Tom Hall
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2009
Genre: Improvisation (Music)
ISBN: 9780615328621
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Fantasies of Improvisation

Fantasies of Improvisation
Author: Dana Gooley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 019063359X
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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."

Composing Matters

Composing Matters
Author: Patrick Allen
Publisher: Heinemann
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780435811822
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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.

YAMAGUCHI Improvisation Method

YAMAGUCHI Improvisation Method
Author: Masaya Yamaguchi
Publisher: Masaya Music
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2012-09-23
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0967635349
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The motivation for the YAMAGUCHI improvisation method was to develop my The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales and delve into my findings about music education. I do not have any aspiration to write the best-selling how to improvise textbook, but I did have the perspiration required to complete the best content improvisation method book available to any instrumentalist. My main priorities are to boost teaching quality as well as general academic standards in music pedagogy. The YAMAGUCHI improvisation method is also intended to answer musicians demands for my lessons (This textbook price is more reasonable than one-time private lesson fee). With my original method revealed in this book, you will be able to activate, in your music, The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales, Symmetrical Scales for Jazz Improvisation, Pentatonicism in Jazz: Creative Aspects and Practice, and Lexicon of Geometric Patterns for Jazz Improvisation. The motto of the YAMAGUCHI Improvisation Method is, "Search not for the tracks of the people of old, Search for that which they aspired to." Keep stimulating your interests by researching the past, and searching within yourself. I hope that the YAMAGUCHI Improvisation Method will guide you to become a complete artist. GOOD LUCK!

Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
Author: Ben Watson
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1781684898
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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.

Contextualized Practices in Arts Education

Contextualized Practices in Arts Education
Author: Chee-Hoo Lum
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2013-12-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9814560553
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This edited book not only makes a much-needed contribution to research in arts education but also provides a strong grounding of evidential support for Singapore arts education, in contrast to the current state of affairs in arts education in many parts of the world where severe cuts in funding, lackluster support for the arts and imperialist agendas are pervasive. The case of and for Singapore – presented in this edited book through rich descriptions of the dedicated, contextualized practices of arts educators, artists and researchers – offers readers many valuable lessons and reflections on the continued survival and advancement of arts education.

A Concise History of Jazz

A Concise History of Jazz
Author: John Robert Brown
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1609742842
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John Robert Brown presents an enthusiastic and authoritative account of a century of jazz. Written in a clear and engaging style by a well-known British author and jazz educator, this book offers an affectionate introduction to the people and places that are of worldwide importance in the history of this wonderful music.