Rory’s comments on “What Second Life Should Learn From Myst” really resonated with me and it struck me that would-be music improvisers could also learn from Rory’s improvisational theater experience. Improvisation seems to be more frequently encountered in drama than in music, other the jazz idiom, so beginners may find this a [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Limits Set Me Free!
Posted in Creative performance, Improvisation, Music Education, tagged Composition on March 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The True Story of a Magic Flute
Posted in Creative performance, Music Technology, Music and Disability on March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is a happy story about the kind of magic that can happen when the worldwide web is used in the way the early developers envisaged – a great antidote to all those poisons injected into the system by spammers, hackers and crooks! It is a story of love, creativity, generosity and determination facilitated by [...]
“Say That Again” – Repetition in Improvisation
Posted in Improvisation, Music Education, tagged Composition on March 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When I was looking through some easy classical piano anthologies for examples to illustrate the “I’ve Got Rhythm…” article , I was struck by how much repetition, melodic as well as rhythmic, the tunes contained. I knew there would be plenty of combinations of two phrases – ABAB, ABBA, etc., but I wasn’t prepared for [...]
