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Pathways to the Practice of Free Improvisation

Emch, Derek Z
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1604482209158012

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2020, Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), Bowling Green State University, Contemporary Music.
Improvisation offers unique opportunities in musical creativity and development, though incorporation of the teaching of improvisation into American higher education curricula has been uneven. While there is a growing interest in teaching improvisation, most improvisation instruction can be found in early childhood music education and in high school and college-level jazz instruction, creating an accessibility gap for individuals who wish to improvise or teach improvisation but have no experience improvising, in a jazz context or otherwise. The purpose of this document is to examine current instructional methods of teaching free improvisation in higher education, and to develop a series of musical prompts designed to develop spontaneous musical creative ability in an individual and group setting. In doing so, this document aims to reduce the accessibility gap and to help bring the culture of creative improvising further into collegiate-level musical instruction.
Kevin Schempf (Advisor)
Ryan Ebright (Committee Member)
Carol Heckman (Other)
Elizabeth Menard (Committee Member)
97 p.
Music
improvisation; free improvisation; music education; creativity

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  • Emch, D. Z. (2020). Pathways to the Practice of Free Improvisation [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1604482209158012

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Emch, Derek. Pathways to the Practice of Free Improvisation. 2020. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1604482209158012.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Emch, Derek. "Pathways to the Practice of Free Improvisation." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1604482209158012

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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