Jamming the classroom : musical improvisation and pedagogical practice / by Heble, Ajay, 1961-, Stewart, Jesse, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Hearing What the Other Has to Play: Co-learning through Musical Improvisation -- 3. Music Festivals as Alternative Pedagogical Institutions -- 4. …”
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Improvising early music : the history of musical improvisation from the late Middle Ages to the early Baroque / by Wegman, Rob C., Menke, Johannes, Schubert, Peter

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Signs of music : a guide to musical semiotics by Tarasti, Eero

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Acting your inner music : music therapy and psychodrama by Moreno, Joseph J.

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Preface -- Music Therapy and Psychodrama: Complementary Therapies -- The History of Music in Psychodrama -- Music in Psychodrama: Basic Processes -- Music Improvisation Warmups -- Individual Music Improvisation -- Group Music Improvisation -- Music and Imagery in Psychodrama -- Musical Psychodrama Techniques -- Musical Psychodrama Case Examples -- Musical Psychodrama Scenarios -- Ancient Sources and Modern Applications: The Creative Arts in Psychodrama -- A Look to the Future -- Suggested Sources -- References…”
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TEDTalks : Charles Limb - Your Brain on Improv

Table of Contents: “…Charles Limb, Surgeon & Musician (0:34) -- Posing Scientific Questions About Musical Improvisation (2:01) -- Studying Creativity With Functional MRI Technology (2:08) -- fMRI Experiment: Piano Players (1:16) -- Brain Activity: Memorization v. …”
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TEDTalks Charles Limb - Your Brain on Improv

Table of Contents: “…Charles Limb, Surgeon & Musician (0:34) -- Posing Scientific Questions About Musical Improvisation (2:01) -- Studying Creativity With Functional MRI Technology (2:08) -- fMRI Experiment: Piano Players (1:16) -- Brain Activity: Memorization v. …”
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Dance On. Gwendolyn Watson

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Maqam : Historical Traces and Present Practice in Southern European Music Traditions. by Elsner, Jürgen

Table of Contents: “…Table of contents; introduction; part i; maqam in peripheral cultures; the makam system as a metatheoryfor interpreting bulgariantraditional songs; part ii; the melodic characteristicsof greek rebetika music; improvised instrumental sectionson bosnian commercial recordings; theory of ottoman musicof the modern period; oriental music tradition in bosniaand herzegovina during the periodof austro-hungarian rule; a turkish contribution to algerianmusical culture; part iii; adhan in the tradition of islamicreligious community in vojvodina.…”
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Touched by genius : neurological look at creativity

Table of Contents: “…Mental Disorder and Creativity (5:22) -- Creativity in Normal and Abnormal Brains (3:01) -- Tourette's Syndrome and Musical Genius (2:08) -- Autism and Creative Genius (4:37) -- Musical Improvisation and Autism (1:39) -- Creativity and Brain Chemistry (2:49) -- Parkinson's Disease, Brain Chemistry, and Creativity (3:55) -- Chemical Imbalance and Creativity (1:55) -- Tourette's Syndrome and Over-Stimulation (3:53) -- Link Between Madness and Creativity (4:01) -- Brain Chemical: Dopamine (2:04) -- Tourette's and Musical Ability (3:19) -- Tourette's: Childhood and Music (2:51) -- Tourette's and Musical Performance (3:25) -- Tourette's: Driving Energy Behind Musical Passion (1:39)…”
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Touched by genius neurological look at creativity

Table of Contents: “…Mental Disorder and Creativity (5:22) -- Creativity in Normal and Abnormal Brains (3:01) -- Tourette's Syndrome and Musical Genius (2:08) -- Autism and Creative Genius (4:37) -- Musical Improvisation and Autism (1:39) -- Creativity and Brain Chemistry (2:49) -- Parkinson's Disease, Brain Chemistry, and Creativity (3:55) -- Chemical Imbalance and Creativity (1:55) -- Tourette's Syndrome and Over-Stimulation (3:53) -- Link Between Madness and Creativity (4:01) -- Brain Chemical: Dopamine (2:04) -- Tourette's and Musical Ability (3:19) -- Tourette's: Childhood and Music (2:51) -- Tourette's and Musical Performance (3:25) -- Tourette's: Driving Energy Behind Musical Passion (1:39)…”
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Musical Creativity : Insights from Music Education Research. by Odena, Oscar

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Conceptualizing musical creativity; 1 Rethinking 'musical creativity' and the notion of multiple creativities in music; 2 Teachers' perceptions of creativity; 5 Towards pedagogies of revision: guiding a student's music composition; 6 The nature of the engagement of Brazilian adolescents in composing activities; 7 Empathetic creativity in music-making; 8 Cognition and musical improvisation in individual and group contexts.…”
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Case Examples of Music Therapy for Personality Disorders by Bruscia, Kenneth E.(CP)

Table of Contents: “…CASE FIVE A Woman's Change from Being Nobody to Somebody: Music Therapy with a Middle-Aged, Speechless and Self-Destructive Woman Niels HannibalCASE SIX The Revival of the Frozen Sea Urchin: Music Therapy with a Psychiatric Patient Inge Nygaard Pedersen; CASE SEVEN Musical Improvisation in the Treatment of a Man with Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder José Van Den Hurk Henk Smeijsters.…”
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Song from the land of fire : continuity and change in Azerbaijanian mugham by Naroditskaya, Inna, 1955-

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Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists Creating music with ChucK by Ajay Kapur, Perry

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Microanalysis in music therapy : methods, techniques and applications for clinicians, researchers, educators and students

Table of Contents: “…Microanalysis in music therapy : introduction and theoretical basis / Thomas Wosch and Tony Wigram -- An ethnographic descriptive approach to video microanalysis / Ulla Holck -- Microanalysis of preverbal communication in music therapy / Christine Plahl -- Microanalysis on selected video clips with focus on communicative response in music therapy / Hanne Mette Ridder -- Microanalysis of interaction in music therapy (MIMT) with children with developmental disorders / Julia Scholtz, Melanie Voigt, and Thomas Wosch -- The "AQR-instrument" (assessment of the quality of relationship)--an observation instrument to assess the quality of a relationship / Karin Schumacher and Claudine Calvet -- The use of improvisation assessment profiles (IAPs) and RepGrid in microanalysis of clinical music improvisation / Brian Abrams -- Using voice analysis software to analyse the sung and spoken voice / Felicity Baker -- Analysis of notated music examples selected from improvisations of psychotic patients / Jos de Backer and Tony Wigram -- Music therapy toolbox (MTTB)--an improvisation analysis tool for clinicians and researchers / Jaakko Erkkilä -- A structural model of music analysis / Denise Grocke -- Microanalysis of emotional experience and interaction in single sequences of active improvisatory music therapy / Ute A.A. …”
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Music therapy and traumatic brain injury : a light on a dark night by Gilbertson, Simon

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Music and the sociological gaze : art worlds and cultural production by Martin, Peter J., 1947-

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A-Life for music : music and computer models of living systems

Table of Contents: “…A-Life for Music: Music and Computer Models of Living Systems; A-LIFE FOR MUSIC; Contents; List of Figures, Examples, and Tables; Preface; ONE Artificial Anuran Choruses; TWO Multi-Agent Modeling of Complex Rhythmic Interactions in Real- Time Performance; THREE Using Coevolution in Music Improvisation; FOUR Structural Coupling in a Society of Musical Agents; FIVE Transformation and Mapping of L-Systems Data in the Composition of a Large- Scale Piece of Music; SIX Generative Composition with Nodal; SEVEN Evolutionary Morphing for Music Composition; EIGHT The Evolving Drum Machine.…”
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Essays on Analytical Music Therapy. by Priestley, Mary

Table of Contents: “…The Place of Structure In Musical Improvisation13. The Meaning Of Music; 14. The Musical Response; Unit Four: Theoretical Concepts; 15. …”
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