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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"music improvisation"”.
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KinaeSonic Frameworks: Practicing dramaturgical thinking in dance and music improvisation-as-performance from a Rhythm Tap practitioner perspective
… explores the intersection of dramaturgy, improvisation studies and dance and music collaborative practices, viewed from a Rhythm Tap practitioner perspective. A broad scope of dance and music improvisation-as-performance practices are considered through the lens of dramaturgical thinking …
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Using the expressive arts to facilitate group music improvisation and individual reflection: expanding consciousness in music learning for self-development
This study examines the convergence of music learning and the expressive arts as a means to create a balance between internal and external ways of knowing. As external ways of knowing have traditionally been privileged in education and music education, this research explores the participatory …
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The Joy of Improvising Music Together – An Autoethnographic study into using simplicity and humour in music improvisation as a vehicle to elicit joy and build community
Music improvisation has been the subject of a vast body of research, a lot of which has focused on techniques and pedagogy. This paper accompanies its author’s creative work and argues that the practice of group music improvisation can be used to elicit joy and build communities.<br/>Drawing from …
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The effects of peer versus therapist mediated music improvisation groups on quality of social interaction between adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and general education peers
… study is to investigate the effectiveness of music-based peer mediation interventions to enhance the quality of social interaction for high school students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Specifically, it assessed whether adolescents with ASD demonstrate a difference in group …
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Musical Play: Children interacting with and around music technology
This thesis explores young children and music learning in the ecology of music technologies. The research is a part of an EU project called MIROR (Musical Interaction Relying on Reflection) that had the intention to develop software for music learning designed to promote specific cognitive …
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A Phenomenological Enquiry of Perceived Mental Representations in Thematic Musical Improvisation: Case Studies of Two Professional Pianists
… a phenomenological enquiry of two professional music improvisers’ perceived mental representations. The notion of perceived ‘mental representations’ are recognized as having a pedagogical importance in increasing the quality of a musical performance, yet its nature and roles in music learning …
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Improvisation in Jíbaro Music: A Structural Analysis
Improvisation is regarded as the most sublime element in the jíbaro folk music tradition of Puerto Rico. This tradition originated by the jíbaro, the simple rural farmer of Puerto Rico's heartland, involves the complicated art of improvising in décima, a ten-line poetic form, as well as …
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Evaluating computational creativity: a standardised procedure for evaluating creative systems and its application
… detailed comparisons of the creativity of three musical improvisation systems, identifying which systems are more creative than others and why. In a second case study, SPECS is used to capture initial impressions on the creativity of systems presented at a 2011 computational creativity research …
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Improvisation: narrative and character techniques in jazz pedagogy
<p>"This paper explores techniques in theatrical improvisation and discovers how they can be applied to jazz improvisation pedagogy. Improvised character and narrative are addressed from a theatrical standpoint and techniques are demonstrated to be easily relatable to jazz. The author proposes some …
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Building Mobile Instruments for Improvised Musical Performance
… explores an approach to building electronic musical instruments for use in improvised music that I have found to be particularly effective for developing flexible, dynamic, and versatile instruments well adapted to the improvised context, and a resultant set of suites of solo improvised …
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Live Sampling in Improvised Musical Performance: Three Approaches and a Discussion of Aesthetics
Three original software programs utilizing improvisation and live sampling are presented here, along with a discussion of aesthetic issues raised by each. They are entitled Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Musiker, Motet, and Gamepad Sampler. These programs vary in the degree of required interaction and …
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Assessing Improvisation in Graded Music Examinations: Conflicting Practices and Perceptions
Abstract Assessing Improvisation in Graded Music Examinations: Conflicting Practices and Perceptions Patrick Garrett Olsen For a practice that has influenced the development of most of the musical techniques and compositional forms of Western music (Ferand, 1965, p.5), ‘improvisation’ is …
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Improvising Otherwise: Sound, Nature, and Coloniality in Early Modern England
Improvisation can be a mode of imagining otherwise: a practice that allows us to re-consider and question ways of writing, sounding, and being in the world. In this thesis I use improvisation as a lens through which we can listen to alternative stories of early modern English music history, …
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Maloya dance and music: Réunionese Créole togetherness
… been the development of maloya, an improvised music-and-dance form that so alienated French colonial authorities and landowners that it was unofficially banned until 1981. While maloya music has been taught since 1987 at Conservatoire de La Réunion and has reached international stages, maloya …