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Bocal: Vocal improvisation and performance

Voz e Cena (Voice and Scene), 2022
Este artículo reflexiona sobre el trabajo Bocal presentado en noviembre de 2021 en la 34ª Bienal de São Paulo, por invitación del Festival Novas Frequências y la organización Cultura Artística. Es un dúo de improvisación vocal realizado por las artistas Inés Terra y Paola Ribeiro.
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The Voice Essential: Exploring Oral Traditions in the Study of Vocal Improvisation

Music Therapy Perspectives, 2023
Abstract The voice—from the utility of oral traditions to the pedagogy of singing as performance—is essential to the human experience, yet its use of it has become the narrow purview of those privileged enough to study or make a career out of teaching or performing. In this article, the authors lend unique perspectives on the voice as an
John Mondanaro, Emily Nicholas-Curnutte
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Using Principles of Jazz Improvisation for Vocal Majors: Focusing on Vocal Majors

The Korean Association for the Study of Popular Music, 2023
This study aims to develop a method of through singing that the principles of jazz improvisation, but focuses on improvisation as a tool for composition rather than to cultivate authentic jazz improvisational techniques. The lessons are divided into four phases: singing chord tones, singing chord tones over chord progressions, creating melodies over ...
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Pathways for Teaching Vocal Jazz Improvisation

2014
This chapter will present three common educational pathways used by teachers of vocal jazz improvisation. In the first approach, teachers immerse students in the sounds of jazz. Like a child learning to speak, students subconsciously absorb musical language, then progress to imitating masters and producing spontaneous creations of their own. The second
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A Model for Teaching Creative Vocal Jazz Improvisation

ArtsPraxis, 2004
Many music teachers consider improvisation to be a creative musical activity, without questioning whether student improvisations are really "creative." Others claim that improvisation skill is
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An Exploratory Investigation of the Assessment of Vocal Jazz Improvisation

Psychology of Music, 1995
The purpose of this study was to investigate the assessment of vocal jazz improvisation achievement. Subjects were 101 college students enrolled in vocal jazz courses. The following aspects of vocal jazz improvisation were measured: (a) tonal (intonation, correct tones, appropriate language, variety, originality, motivic development, and unity): (1 ...
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‘Deed I do: narrating expert vocal jazz improvisers’ experiences of the piano

2021
Research on jazz improvisation has almost exclusively focussed on the experiences of instrumentalists, leaving singers’ experiences of improvisation veiled in mystery. Inside the jazz scene there is a perception that singers are 'improvisational underachievers' in comparison to instrumentalists.
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Presence of female cowbirds (Molothrus ater ater) affects vocal imitation and improvisation in males.

Journal of Comparative Psychology, 1989
In this article we report that imitation and improvisation of tutor songs by eastern male cowbirds (Molothrus ater ater) differs when they are housed with conspecific females as opposed to nonconspecifics. When males, tutored with 12 different song types, were individually housed with females, they developed repertoires composed primarily of improvised
Andrew P. King, Meredith J. West
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