Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society

Contents

• Musical Improvisation: Art, Education and Society
• Edited by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl
• Preface - Bruno Nettl
• Introduction - Gabriel Solis
• Part One: Society
• 1. Jazz as Political and Musical Practice - Ingrid Monson
• 2. John Cage and Improvisation: an Unresolved Relationship - Sabine M. Feisst
• 3. When Traditional Improvisation is Prohibited: Contemporary
• Ukrainian Funeral Laments and Burial Practices - Natalie Kononenko
• 4. The Juncture between Creation and Recreation among Indonesian Reciters of the Qur'an - Anne K. Rasmussen
• 5. Genius, Improvisation, and the Narrative of Jazz History - Gabriel Solis
• 6. Formula, Variation and Improvisation in Participatory Music - Thomas Turino
• Part Two: Education
• 7. Learning to Improvise Music, Improvising to Learn Music - Patricia Shehan Campbell
• 8. Improvising Mozart - Robert Levin
• 9. Keyboard Improvisation in the Baroque Period - Charlotte Mattax Moersch
• 10. Beyond the Improvisation Class: Learning to Improvise
• in a University Jazz Studies Program - John P. Murphy
• 11. On Learning the Radif and Improvisation in Iran - Bruno Nettl
• 12. Hindustani Sitar and Jazz Guitar Music: A Foray into Comparative Improvology - Stephen Slawek
• 13. Music Improvisation in the Modern Dance Class - John Toenjes
• Part Three: Creation
• 14. Representations of Music-Making - Stephen Blum
• 15. Improvisation and Related Terms in Middle-Period Jazz - Lawrence Gushee
• 16. Opening the Museum Window: Improvisation and its Inscribed Values in Canonic Works by Schumann and Chopin - Robert S. Hatten
• 17. Improvisation in Beethoven's Creative Process - William Kinderman
• 18. Why Do They Improvise? Reflections on
• Meaning and Experience - A. Jihad Racy
• 19. Preluding at the Piano - Nicholas Temperley
• Contributor List
• Index