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- Definition Improvisation is the spontaneous creation of music without premeditated planning, allowing musicians to express their creativity and respond to their surroundings in real-time.
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With this formulation of the question, musical improvisation becomes a suitable topic for psychological investigation, focusing on cognitive, physical, and interpersonal processes, and on the musical structures on which these processes operate.
A posited definition of improvisation encompasses such a broad range of human actions that it is helpful to consider both improvisation and rhythm in terms of embodied cognition and a notion of bodily empathy.
Improvisation: Methods and models. In J. A. Sloboda (Ed.), Generative processes in music: The psychology of performance, improvisation, and composition (pp. 129–178).
- Jeff Pressing
- 1988
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- Characteristics of Improvisation
- Effects on Health Or Wellbeing
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- 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
Musical improvisation is the spontaneous creation of music in real-time, where musicians make decisions about melody, harmony, rhythm, and dynamics on the spot. This process fosters creativity and expression, allowing performers to communicate emotionally and interactively with one another.
Jan 1, 1984 · One method is to practise the execution of specific forms, motives, scales, arpeggios or less traditional musical gestures, so that such musical objects and generalized representations of them are entered into long-term 'object memory' in conceptual, muscular and musical coding.
Oct 2, 2014 · This chapter surveys psychologically oriented research literature on music improvisation. Improvisation—to many, a mysterious process—is found in musics of many cultures across the ages. The focus of this chapter is, thus, on what we know about how improvisation is carried out.
