Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. While many improv shows aim to produce a spontaneous play or mimic stage or screen ...

The Annoyance's very own musical ensembles. Every Tuesday at 8pm, two groups improvise brand new musicals based on audience suggestions. Featuring Musical Director Lisa McQueen and starring the ...

This article presents a three-pronged strategy for teaching collective improvisation in the general music classroom through structured surround soundscapes. This strategy consists of developing ...

Traditional Iranian music is not based on musical scores. Instead, traditional melody types are passed down orally. In his new book “Traditional Iranian music — Orality, physicality and improvisation, ...

Pianist Holly Bowling and Guitarist Tom Hamilton are known for conversing on stages throughout the country through their instruments, creating an intimate improvisation each and every show. Tom ...

[email protected] has received funding from SSHRC. He is affiliated with Silence, a community artspace and not-for-profit. Laura Risk receives or has received funding from SSHRC, FRQSC and the ...

Given what Mozart initially improvised in his head and what he later wrote out are one and the same, the listener will derive equal satisfaction listening to Mozart spontaneously invent at the piano, ...

Oakton Community College's performing arts lineup has something for everyone during May. "Whether you like guitar or trombone, jazz or classical music, improv or the art of public speaking, you will ...

When people think of classical music, they’re usually referring to Beethoven, Mozart, Ravel, and other music written by European composers. Western European classical music is certainly the most ...