Improvisation
eBook - PDF

Improvisation

Methods and Techniques for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators, and Students

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Improvisation

Methods and Techniques for Music Therapy Clinicians, Educators, and Students

About this book

Improvisation plays a key role in the toolbox of the music therapist. Tony Wigram's practical and comprehensive guide and online content will prove indispensable to students, teachers, therapists and musicians as a book of musical techniques and therapeutic methods. Beginning with an overview of developing, teaching and analysing the skills of improvisation, Wigram describes techniques ranging from warming up to mirroring, rhythmic grounding, containing and holding. With specific sections on piano improvisation, chordal and 2-, 3- and 4- note improvisation are covered, in addition to advanced skills such as frameworking and transitions. Wigram also includes techniques for thematic improvisation, group improvisation and outlines methods for analysing and reporting improvisational processes. Notated examples allow readers to try out techniques and progress as they read, with audio examples on the accompanying online content adding another dimension to the structure and guidance provided for all levels of music student and therapist.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Improvisation
  3. Contents
  4. LIST OF TABLES
  5. LIST OF FIGURES
  6. LIST OF CD EXAMPLES
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 Basic Concepts in Improvisation
  12. 3 Musical Techniques
  13. 4 Basic Therapeutic Methods and Skills
  14. 5 Adanced Therapeutic Methods: Extemporizing and Frameworking
  15. 6 Transitions: In Improvisation and Therapy
  16. 7 Thematic Improvisation
  17. 8 Group Improvisation
  18. 9 Two Different Methods for Analyzing and Reporting Improvised Music
  19. Bibliography
  20. Subject Index
  21. Author Index