| ONLINE TEACHING RESOURCES | FREE IMPROVISATION: THEORY & PRACTICE |
| email | www |
| Matthew Sansom |
| 20 credits |
| theory: tue 11am-12noon, TB6 |
| practice: mon 2pm-3.30pm, Studio 1 |
| notes: |
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| - COURSEWORK DATES: |
| Monday November 9th - journals for review (*brought to class) |
| Monday Novmeber 16th (midday) - history essay (1,500 words), 30% |
| ESSAY TITLE: An essay explaining the historical basis for the emergence of the genre of Free Improvisation |
| Monday January 11th (midday) - final project (2,500 words) & journal , 70% |
| - Attendance is required and unexplained absence will be be penalised (up to -10%) |
| - REFLECTIVE JOURNALS: as a guide, three entries per week (reflections on lecture/workshop; duo session; an-other) - guidelines |
| - RECOMMENDED READING: Prévost, Edwin, 1995: No Sound is Innocent: AMM and the Practice of Self-Invention. Meta-Musical Narratives. Essays (Harlow, Essex: Copula); Bailey, Derek, 1993: Improvisation: its Nature and Practice in Music (New York: Da Capo Press); Borgo, David, 2005: Sync or Swarm (New York: Continuum) |
| - RECOMMENDED FOR A LITTLE LATER: Ehrenzweig, Anton, 1993: The Hidden Order of Art . (London: Weidenfeld); Maclagan, David, 2001: Psychological Aesthetics: painting, feeling and making sense (London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers); |
| - LINK for improv gig videos here: Video1 | Video2 |
| lectures: |
| the lectures discuss approaches to knowledge and music; repertoire; theory; and applications |
| ways of thinking | repertoire 1 | repertoire 2 | theory 1 | theory 2 | theory 3 | assessment (theory 4) | |
| theory 5 |
| module description |
| reading & listening |