Teaching Music Analysis through Improvisation

Teaching Improvisation through Processes. Applications in Music Education and Implications for General Education

Improvisation is an articulated multidimensional activity based on an extemporaneous creative performance. Practicing improvisation, participants expand sophisticated skills such as sensory and perceptual encoding, memory storage and recall, motor control, and performance monitoring. Improvisation abilities have been developed following several methodologies mainly with a product-oriented persp...

Mobile Group Music Improvisation

Collaborative improvisation, composition, and performance of music constitute a basic and distinctive form of human interaction. Across cultures, the production and enjoyment of music is typically an open, collaborative, activity more analogous to informal conversation or story telling than to a formal lecture. We know very little about how to design for such situations even though we have seen...

Improvisation in Music

Music Composition, Improvisation, and Performance through Body Movements

Music and dance have been traditionally complementary arts, however, their integration has not been always satisfactory. In general , a dancer needs to conform his/her movements to a pre{deened piece of music, leaving him/her with very little room for improvisation. In this paper, a system called SICIB, capable of music composition, improvisation, and performance through body movements is descr...

The relation of improvisation in music & Social character of improviser

This research investigates the relation of social practices and behavior of the musician or singer with the quality of his improvisation in the field of music. Using analytic method and field study, it explores the views of two groups of interviewees in the form of two separate statistical communities. The first sample consists of outstanding teachers of music in sixties and nineties which deal...