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Improvisation: Music for an Occasion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Eddie Prévost
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The case is put for improvisation as the basis for world music, with special reference to flexibility of the blues and the gamelan. An overview of the impact of society on music leads to a general survey of the status of improvisation in pre-industrial Western European culture. Improvisation is contrasted with composition and consideration is given to the problems of providing education in improvisation without destroying its vitality and communicative power.

Type
Research Article
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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , July 1985 , pp. 177 - 186
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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