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The notated preludes common in western art music have roots in improvised introductions to larger pieces provided (mainly) by organists, keyboardists, and lutenists. Both improvised and notated preludes [...]

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My MFA thesis project focused on the concept of the improvisational referent, a body of learned musical rules or frameworks that help guide improvising musicians (such as jazz song form). Musicians access and process learned musical information to produce improvised sounding by negotiating complicated systems of stylistic guidelines, cultural expectations, and personal [...]

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While the frameworks and “rules” observed by improvising musicians are often culturally based and mediated the act of musical improvisation, using instruments and the body to generate sound, is ultimately individual. My own ongoing study about, practice of, and writing on improvisation is focused on attaining a clearer understanding of the individual improviser. How [...]

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