Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians write by Jeffrey Agrell. This book was released on 2008. Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Vocal Improvisation Games
Vocal Improvisation Games - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vocal Improvisation Games write by Jeffrey Agrell. This book was released on 2014. Vocal Improvisation Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
From Sight to Sound
From Sight to Sound - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Sight to Sound write by Nicole M. Brockmann. This book was released on 2009-04-07. From Sight to Sound available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Sight to Sound provides practical and creative techniques for classical improvisation for musicians of all levels and instruments, solo or in ensembles. These exercises build aural and communicative skills, instrumental technique, and musical understanding. When students use their instruments to execute and improvise on theoretical concepts, they make vivid connections between abstract ideas and their own playing. This then allows students to unite performance with music theory, ear-training, historical style and context, chamber music skills, and listening skills. Many of the exercises in this book are designed for players working in pairs or small groups to encourage performers to communicate with one another and build an atmosphere of trust in which creativity and spontaneity may flourish.
In the Course of Performance
In the Course of Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Course of Performance write by Bruno Nettl. This book was released on 1998-12-15. In the Course of Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Course of Performance is the first book in decades to illustrate and explain the practices and processes of musical improvisation. Improvisation, by its very nature, seems to resist interpretation or elucidation. This difficulty may account for the very few attempts scholars have made to provide a general guide to this elusive subject. With contributions by seventeen scholars and improvisers, In the Course of Performance offers a history of research on improvisation and an overview of the different approaches to the topic that can be used, ranging from cognitive study to detailed musical analysis. Such diverse genres as Italian lyrical singing, modal jazz, Indian classical music, Javanese gamelan, and African-American girls' singing games are examined. The most comprehensive guide to the understanding of musical improvisation available, In the Course of Performance will be indispensable to anyone attracted to this fascinating art. Contributors are Stephen Blum, Sau Y. Chan, Jody Cormack, Valerie Woodring Goertzen, Lawrence Gushee, Eve Harwood, Tullia Magrini, Peter Manuel, Ingrid Monson, Bruno Nettl, Jeff Pressing, Ali Jihad Racy, Ronald Riddle, Stephen Slawek, Chris Smith, R. Anderson Sutton, and T. Viswanathan.
It's About Music
It's About Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It's About Music write by Jean-Michel Pilc. This book was released on 2013-03-08. It's About Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jean-Michel Pilc, jazz pianist and faculty member of Steinhardt School, New York University, has written a remarkable book about the artistic and creative process in the arts. The conversational style well suits the wide ranging topic which draws examples from art and music both classical and jazz. A beautifully expressed work on a subject otherwise impossible to write about. Hailed by musicians around the world as enlightened and inspirational.
