DCMS://MUS315_Introduction to Improvisation in Music/
Contact: Dr Adrian McNeil
Room: W6A 101
Email: adrian.mcneil@humn.mq.edu.au
Phone: 9850-8861
Credit points: 3
Offered:WV - Winter vacation session
(WV Session dates: 5,6 July - 12,13 July 2008)
Contact Hours: 4 days x 7 hours (2 consecutive weekends)
Prerequisites: 40cp
This course examines the role of improvisation in musical performance. It looks at the many ways improvisation is understood and practised in a diverse range of performance settings. Drawing upon this wide ranging perspective the course sets out to construct an overview of the strategies, techniques and aesthetics that both define and inform inprovisation. The course also contains a practical component which comprises of a series of graded exercises that develop rhythmic and melodic skills. It also introduces various practical models used in variety of music cultures to provide basic skills for improvising. Students are expected to have some performance skills.