Improvising The Score

Author : Gretchen L. Carlson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496840752

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Improvising the Score by Gretchen L. Carlson Pdf

On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle’s Ascenseur pour l’échafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur challenged mainstream filmmaking conventions, emphasizing experimentation and creative collaboration. It was in this environment during the late 1950s to 1960s, a brief “golden age” for jazz in film, that many independent filmmakers valued improvisational techniques, featuring soundtracks from such seminal figures as John Lewis, Thelonious Monk, and Duke Ellington. But what of jazz in film today? Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz provides an original, vivid investigation of innovative collaborations between renowned contemporary jazz artists and prominent independent filmmakers. The book explores how these integrative jazz-film productions challenge us to rethink the possibilities of cinematic music production. In-depth case studies include collaborations between Terence Blanchard and Spike Lee (Malcolm X, When the Levees Broke), Dick Hyman and Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters), Antonio Sánchez and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman), and Mark Isham and Alan Rudolph (Afterglow). The first book of its kind, this study examines jazz artists’ work in film from a sociological perspective, offering rich, behind-the-scenes analyses of their unique collaborative relationships with filmmakers. It investigates how jazz artists negotiate their own “creative labor,” examining the tensions between improvisation and the conventionally highly regulated structures, hierarchies, and expectations of filmmaking. Grounded in personal interviews and detailed film production analysis, Improvising the Score illustrates the dynamic possibilities of integrative artistic collaborations between jazz, film, and other contemporary media, exemplifying its ripeness for shaping and invigorating twenty-first-century arts, media, and culture.

Author : Gretchen L. Carlson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496840738

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Improvising the Score by Gretchen L. Carlson Pdf

2023 Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Awards for Books of the Year—Honorable Mention Recipient On December 4, 1957, Miles Davis revolutionized film soundtrack production, improvising the score for Louis Malle’s Ascenseur pour l’échafaud. A cinematic harbinger of the French New Wave, Ascenseur challenged mainstream filmmaking conventions, emphasizing experimentation and creative collaboration. It was in this environment during the late 1950s to 1960s, a brief “golden age” for jazz in film, that many independent filmmakers valued improvisational techniques, featuring soundtracks from such seminal figures as John Lewis, Thelonious Monk, and Duke Ellington. But what of jazz in film today? Improvising the Score: Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz provides an original, vivid investigation of innovative collaborations between renowned contemporary jazz artists and prominent independent filmmakers. The book explores how these integrative jazz-film productions challenge us to rethink the possibilities of cinematic music production. In-depth case studies include collaborations between Terence Blanchard and Spike Lee (Malcolm X, When the Levees Broke), Dick Hyman and Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters), Antonio Sánchez and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman), and Mark Isham and Alan Rudolph (Afterglow). The first book of its kind, this study examines jazz artists’ work in film from a sociological perspective, offering rich, behind-the-scenes analyses of their unique collaborative relationships with filmmakers. It investigates how jazz artists negotiate their own “creative labor,” examining the tensions between improvisation and the conventionally highly regulated structures, hierarchies, and expectations of filmmaking. Grounded in personal interviews and detailed film production analysis, Improvising the Score illustrates the dynamic possibilities of integrative artistic collaborations between jazz, film, and other contemporary media, exemplifying its ripeness for shaping and invigorating twenty-first-century arts, media, and culture.

Author : Sherri Lynn Wood
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781683351887

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The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters by Sherri Lynn Wood Pdf

An exciting new approach for beginning to advanced quilters who want to improvise on their own, with a friend, or with a community of fellow makers. Forget step-by-step instructions and copycat designs. In The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters, Sherri Lynn Wood presents a flexible approach to quilting that breaks free of old paradigms. Instead of traditional instructions, she presents 10 frameworks (or scores) that create a guiding, but not limiting, structure. To help quilters gain confidence, Wood also offers detailed lessons for stitching techniques key to improvisation, design and spontaneity exercises, and lessons on color. Every quilt made from one of Wood’s scores will have common threads, but each one will look different because it reflects the maker’s unique interpretation. Featured throughout the book are Wood’s own quilts and a gallery of contributor works chosen from among the hundreds submitted when she invited volunteers to test her scores during the making of this groundbreaking work. “Wood offers a series of techniques, guidelines and lessons on color choice for those ready to explore improvisational quilting. Her book is loaded with full-color photos and examples to inspire.” —Dallas Morning News “Despite how it may “seam,” quilting isn’t all about rules! Quilting can be an exhilarating way to channel your creativity and express yourself. This book is focused more on exploration than explanation—a perfect mindset for beginners!” —Powell’s Books Staff Pick

Author : Bert Konowitz
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 145741063X

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Alfred's Teach Yourself to Improvise at the Keyboard by Bert Konowitz Pdf

Learn to improvise at the keyboard and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Students of all ages can continue their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. By following the step-by-step set of instructions, you will learn all about improvising in blues, rock and jazz styles. With its chord symbols, mini-music lessons and both original and traditional songs, this book will have you improvising right from the beginning! Improvisation is a skill that can be learned and one that every budding pianist should know. It allows the performer to musically express feelings and ideas and is an exciting skill for performing all styles of music. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred be your resource every step of the way.

Author : Joseph Montelione
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000932942

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Forging Pathways to Improvise Music by Joseph Montelione Pdf

A step-by-step resource on forging one’s own pathway to improvise music, this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the reader’s genre of choice. Many musicians struggle with improvisation. Coincidentally, educators also find it challenging to integrate improvisation into curriculum. This book breaks down the barriers most performers and educators combat in the learning and teaching of improvisation, and is a helpful approach to demystify the complicated sphere of music improvisation. Divided into three sections, the first part of the book helps the reader develop an improvisatorial mindset to mentally conceive musical ideas, regardless of genre. The second portion then connects the improviser’s mindset to translating those ideas into a compelling musical performance in real time. The book’s final third assists the reader with discovering how to apply this method of improvisation to the nuanced liturgical, comedic, jazz, and classical styles. Forging Pathways to Improvise Music offers a practical introduction to improvisational methods essential for educators, students, and musicians of diverse educational backgrounds and musical genres.

Author : Ann Cooper Albright,David Gere
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0819566489

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Taken by Surprise by Ann Cooper Albright,David Gere Pdf

First comprehensive overview of improvisation in dance.

Author : Ruth Herbert,David Clarke,Eric Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780192526502

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Music and Consciousness 2 by Ruth Herbert,David Clarke,Eric Clarke Pdf

Consciousness has been described as one of the most mysterious things in the universe. Scientists, philosophers, and commentators from a whole range of disciplines can't seem to agree on what it is, generating a sizeable field of contemporary research known as consciousness studies. Following its forebear Music and Consciousness: Philosophical, Psychological and Cultural Perspectives (OUP, 2011), this volume argues that music can provide a valuable route to understanding consciousness, and also that consciousness opens up new perspectives for the study of music. It argues that consciousness extends beyond the brain, and is fundamentally related to selves engaged in the world, culture, and society. The book brings together an interdisciplinary line up of authors covering topics as wide ranging as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, philosophy and phenomenology, aesthetics, sociology, ethnography, and performance studies and musical styles from classic to rock, trance to Daoism, jazz to tabla, and deep listening to free improvisation. Music and Consciousness 2 will be fasinating reading for those studying or working in the field of musicology, those researching consciousness as well as cultural theorists, psychologists, and philosophers.

Author : Herbert Silverstein,Richard Drexler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-19
Category : Improvisation (Music)
ISBN : 1425136087

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Jazz Harmony and Improvisation by Herbert Silverstein,Richard Drexler Pdf

The student of jazz piano will learn techniques of improvisation using Richard Drexler's scale system. Each chord has a choice of scales which allows the musician to improve his improvisation skills.

Author : Bert Konowitz
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 073902017X

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Alfred's Teach Yourself to Improvise at the Keyboard by Bert Konowitz Pdf

Teach yourself to improvise at the electronic keyboard or acoustic piano in this easy-to-use book. Each new concept is presented in logical, progressive fashion and is followed by reinforcement exercises and fun songs to improvise to. You'll want to jam every day!

Author : Roger Dean,Hazel Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134376131

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Improvisation Hypermedia and the Arts since 1945 by Roger Dean,Hazel Smith Pdf

First Published in 1997. The authors’ purpose in this book is to dissect developments in improvisation in the arts since 1945, with a particular emphasis on process and technique. The approach is analytical and theoretical but is also relevant to practitioners and their audience. Their key argument is that improvisation has been of great importance and value in the contemporary arts, particularly because of its potential to develop new forms (often by breaking definitions).

Author : Daniela De Bartolo,Marco Iosa,Giuseppe Vannozzi,Nadia Dominici
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889765775

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Rhythmic Patterns in Neuroscience and Human Physiology by Daniela De Bartolo,Marco Iosa,Giuseppe Vannozzi,Nadia Dominici Pdf

Author : George Lewis,Benjamin Piekut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195370935

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The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies by George Lewis,Benjamin Piekut Pdf

V. 1. Cognitions -- v. 2. Critical theories

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476863122

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Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony by Anonim Pdf

(Jazz Book). A study of three basic outlines used in jazz improv and composition, based on a study of hundreds of examples from great jazz artists.

Author : George E. Lewis,Benjamin Piekut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190627966

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The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1 by George E. Lewis,Benjamin Piekut Pdf

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from more than sixty scholars working in architecture, anthropology, art history, computer science, cognitive science, cultural studies, dance, economics, education, ethnomusicology, film, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary theory, musicology, neuroscience, new media, organizational science, performance studies, philosophy, popular music studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and sound art, among others.

Author : Derek Bailey
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822016316341

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Improvisation by Derek Bailey Pdf

Derek Bailey's IMPROVISATION, originally published in 1980, now revised with additional interviews and photographs, deals with the nature of improvisation in all its forms--Indian music, flamenco, baroque, organ music, rock, jazz, contemporary, and "free" music. Bailey offers a clear view of the breathtaking spectrum of possibilities inherent in improvisational practice.