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Improvisation Pedagogy in World Music (MUSI90142)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2017
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This subject covers the theory and practice of teaching and learning improvisation in cross-cultural perspective. Examples will be drawn from the world’s major improvised music traditions — Jazz, North Indian classical music, Persian and Arabic classical music and West African and Brazilian percussion ensembles. The subject is geared towards music educators, musicians with an interest in world music, and music students with an interest in theory and method in ethnomusicology.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should have gained:
- An understanding and appreciation of improvised music traditions from Asia, Africa and the Americas
- An understanding of the specific methods of both oral and literate improvisation pedagogy in world music traditions
- An understanding of the ways that different improvisation pedagogy methods derive from specific musical aesthetics and produce distinct musical practices
- A fundamental understanding of the relationship between the practices of musical improvisation, approaches to musical pedagogy, and socio-cultural contexts for music in five major music cultures
Generic skills
On completion of this subject students will have enhanced the following generic skills:
• The ability to think critically about the relationship between aesthetic values, pedagogical methods, and specific kinds of musical improvisation
• The ability to read scholarly writing on music critically
• The ability to produce academic writing about music
Last updated: 3 November 2022