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Group Improvisation in Secondary School Instrumental Ensembles

Music Educators Journal, 2022
Group improvisation encourages students to improvise in a collective setting to build confidence in their individual and group improvisational skills. In this article, I describe group improvisation methods that offer an accessible entry into creative music-making for learners in secondary school instrumental ensembles. Instructional considerations and
Aaron Rivkin
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Instrumental Jazz Improvisation Development

Journal of Research in Music Education, 2016
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the role aural imitation ability, jazz theory knowledge, and personal background variables play in the development of jazz improvisation achievement. Participants ( N = 70) included 26 high school and 44 college instrumentalists with varying degrees of jazz improvisation experience.
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Composition and Improvisation in Instrumental Methods Courses: Instrumental Music Teacher Educators’ Perspectives

Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 2015
Abstract Many musical traditions value creative music making in the form of composition and improvisation. However, research indicates American public school teachers consider improvisation and composition among the least important and most difficult skills to teach.
Daniel J Shevock
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Factors and Abilities Influencing Achievement in Instrumental Jazz Improvisation

Journal of Research in Music Education, 2003
The primary purposes of this study were to identify factors underlying instrumental jazz improvisation achievement and to examine the extent to which knowledge of jazz theory, aural skills, aural imitation, and selected background variables predict achievement in instrumental jazz improvisation.
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A quantitative analysis of two improvisation assessment instruments

Psychology of Music, 2021
The purpose of this study was to determine how inter-rater reliability scores for iPad improvisations and clarinet improvisations would compare between two different creativity assessment measures—the Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) and the Test of Ability to Improvise (TAI).
Maud Hickey, Daniel Healy, Casey Schmidt
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Aural Analysis of Arabic Improvised Instrumental Music (Taqsīm)

Music Perception, 2003
This study addresses the perception of Arabic improvised music. The modal musical system (maqām) as well as the model par excellence of instantaneous musical exposition and composition—instrumental improvisation (taqsīm)—are presented. The classical Arabic maqām (plural maqāmāt) is defined in terms of other fundamental interactive elements. The role of
Ayari, Mondher, McAdams, Stephen
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Improviser circuit and technique for electronic musical instrument

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1987
An automatic improvisation circuit for an electronic musical instrument. "Short" rhythm and "short" melody data is read from memories under the control of random number generators, and this rhythm amd melody data is combined and varied as a function of preselected basic rhythms and tonics, and in accordance with rules, to improvise an accompaniment.
George M. Mancini, Rudolph A. Huber
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