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Music Final

Terms in this set (19)

Lavezoli
studies McClaughlin
Steynek
intercultural improvisation
Felles
Suggests that there are power imbalances in shakti stemming from British Colonialism
Improvisation meanings
freedom, spirituality
Indian influence in
western art music beatles as an example, McClaughlin, Shakti
Turino
definition of improvisation: Improvising is voluntary. There are no mistakes. It is something that is intentional. Bailey believes that the important part of improvisation and its meaning is not conveyed by its result- it is only those who do it that can know its meaning. Participatory music. Formulaic performance.
Bailey
Improvisation is unknowable. Idiomatic and non idiomatic music. conventional jazz. Jazz has changed from a vital, passionate music.
Berliner
Creativity sometimes seeds new inventions as a result of the monotony of repeated performance. Embellishment variation
Steve Lacey
Jazz the patterns are well known and everybody is playing them
Monson
political significance of claiming Afro-diasporic affiliation "importance of India and ...Gandhi as symbols of anticolonialism and non-violent resistance" (161) "a broad range of social, spiritual, transnational, and political meanings became attached to the improvisational tendencies implied by the term modal jazz
Lorde
oral formulaic improvisation. did not know they were improvising
Palmas
clapping in flemenco
Compas Flamenco
one Compás includes either 12, 4, or 3 beats
12-beat compas outlined by palmeros
clapping and kind of time
Arab/North African Roma (gypsy) Jewish
combination of influences from Andalusian Spain: flamenco
soleares
typical form as heard in the recording
Falseta
They are usually short melodies played by the guitarist(s) in between sung verses, or to accompany dancers.
what is improvised in a typical performance?
Voice: Choice of lyrics (coplas), melody to which to set the coplas, length of phrases, style (estilo) in which to sing the coplas (including how many times to repeat text), variation or ornamentation of the melod

Guitar: ornamentation, passing chords, choice of falsetas, variation or ornamentation of stock falseta patterns
broad outlines are fixed; lots of details are free
broad outlines are fixed; lots of details are free
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