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In the course of performance : studies in the world of musical improvisation /

Title:
In the course of performance : studies in the world of musical improvisation /
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
Contents:
An art neglected in scholarship / Bruno Nettl -- Recognizing improvisation / Stephen Blum -- Psychological constraints on improvisational expertise and communication / Jeff Pressing -- Do Javanese gamelan musicians really improvise? / R. Anderson Sutton -- Improvisation, ecstasy, and performance dynamics in Arabic music / Ali Jihad Racy -- Go on, girl! : improvisation in Afican-American girls' singing games / Eve Harwood -- Improvisation in Latin American dance music: history and style / Peter Manuel -- Oh freedom: George Russell, John Coltrane, and modal jazz / Ingrid Monson -- Improvisation and group interaction in Italian lyrical singing / Tulla Magrini -- Exploding the belly : improvisation in Cantonese opera / Sau Y. Chan -- Melodic improvisation in Karṇāṭak music : the manifestations of Rāga / T. Viswanathan and Jody Cormack -- Setting the stage: Clara Schumann's preludes / Valerie Woodring Goertzen -- A sense of the possible : Miles Davis and the semiotics of improvised performance / Chris Smith -- The improvisation of Louis Armstrong / Lawrence Gushee -- Keeping it going : terms, practices, and processes of improvisation in Hindustānī instrumental music / Stephen Slawek -- Taqsim Nahawand revisited : the musicianship of Jihad Racy / Bruno Nettl and Ronald Riddle.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML430.7 .I5 1998 – Available