In the Course of Performance – Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE) - Hardcover

Nettl, Bruno

 
9780226574103: In the Course of Performance – Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226574105 ISBN 13: 9780226574103
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1998

Synopsis

This text illustrates and explains the practices and processes of musical improvisation. Improvisation, by its very nature, seems to resist interpretation or elucidation. With contributions by 17 scholars and improvisers, the text 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.

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About the Author

Bruno Nettl is professor of music and anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, including Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents and The Study of Ethnomusicology. In 2012 he was awarded the Charles Homer Haskins Prize, which is presented annually to a distinguished humanist by the American Council of Learned Societies

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226574105
ISBN 13 
9780226574103
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
448