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This article seeks to bring together the literature on musical improvisation that will be of interest and benefit to those wishing to know more about it from a cognitive perspective.
Apr 18, 2002 · This chapter reflects on psychological models and their attempts to simulate improvising processes and constraints; the means by which improvisers acquire performance skills; improvisation as part of a larger, co-collaborative creative endeavor; recent studies highlighting the benefits of improvisation in a learning situation; and improvisation ...
- Method
- Characteristics of Improvisation
- Effects on Health Or Wellbeing
- Mechanisms
- Aesthetic and Therapeutic Improvising
The Medline and PsycInfo databases were searched for peer-reviewed journal articles in English with all of the search terms music*, improvis* and either therap*, well-being or health* in the abstract, returning 177 articles. In addition published works known to the authors were reviewed, and the reference lists of identified articles were checked f...
Although database searches were not exclusively limited to interventions labelled as ‘therapy’, all the relevant references examined or discussed music therapy; that is, improvisation undertaken with therapeutic intent, involving a trained and certified music therapist. Rolvsjord et al. ([2005]) identifies improvisation as an ‘essential but not uni...
Therapy involving musical improvisation has been studied in application to a wide range of groups and conditions, including patients in rehabilitation from neurological damage (Aigen [2009]; Pavlicevic and Ansdell [2004]); patients with substance use disorders (Albornoz [2011]); cancer patients (Burns et al. [2001]; Pothoulaki et al. [2012]); patie...
The mechanisms by which improvisation facilitates enhancements to health or wellbeing are not always specified in the literature, where the focus may be on demonstrating effectiveness of the intervention as a whole. This is largely the case for studies observing an effect of improvisation on physical conditions arising from neurological damage, alt...
The literature reviewed above has examined uses of musical improvisation within therapy. Improvisation is of course more widely practiced than in therapy alone, primarily for aesthetic purposes (Aldridge [1998]). To consider how the study of therapeutic improvising might inform our understanding of improvising in other contexts, it is important to ...
- Raymond Ar MacDonald, Graeme B Wilson
- 2014
Sep 24, 2018 · The distinctive feature of classical music improvisation (at least in the present day) is the existence of a strong canonical form (usually represented by a written score and well known within the community of listeners) from which improvisation is a deliberate deviation.
Jun 22, 2018 · Broadly speaking, music education research tends to characterise improvisation within two conceptual frameworks, which have different implications for implementation; ‘structured’, teacher-directed improvisation and ‘free’, child-directed improvisation.
Apr 1, 2015 · The review has three broad goals: (1) to synthesize the improvisation neuroscience literature, (2) to provide a conceptual framework for interpreting brain imaging results on improvisation, and (3) to integrate these findings with the literature on domain-general creative thought.
Music performance also relies on a rich repertoire of musical knowledge that can be used for purposes of expressive variation and improvisation. As such, the study of music performance provides a way to explore learning, motor control, memory, and interpersonal coordination in the context of a real-world behavior.
