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The Golden Age of Non-Idiomatic (Free) Improvisation: Music like you've never heard it before. First Year Studies University of Tennessee at Knoxville Instructor: Prof. David Keffer |
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Course Notes |
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A note on the selection of musicians: There are many admirable musicians, who have practiced or who are currently practicing forms of non-idiomatic improvisation, far too many to be discussed exhaustively in this or any other single course. This course focuses on individual voices, examining one or two musicians during each week of the semester. The choice of musicians is intended to provide a broad perspective of contributions to the body of non-idiomatic improvisation, past and present. That important musicians have been omitted from this course is inevitable and is strictly a consequence of the finite amount of class time in a one-hour course and the instructor's own judgments on the additional issues that particular musicians bring to the discussion. Finally, this list varies from semester to semester. Musicians listed above were presented in at least one offering of the course. |
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Contact: Instructor Link: Course Homepage |