About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Wah-wah, Vibrato, Prepared piano, Trill, Scruggs style, Musical improvisation, Mute, Historically informed performance, Screaming, Harmonica techniques, Extended techniques, Clawhammer, Circuit bending, Finger vibrato, Multiphonics, String piano, Slapping, Prepared guitar, Circular breathing, Fingering, Bourbon Baroque, 3rd bridge, Ghost note, Finger substitution, Thumb position, Double stop, Auser Musici, Keith style, Woodwind growl, Double buzz, Music session, Octave glissando, Score following, Flutter-tonguing, Tremolo picking, Bariolage, Spectral glide, Sostenuto, Big guitar, Growling, Breath mark, Sebene, G run, Sting, Piano four hands, Nikoladze preparation, Warp refraction. Excerpt: Musical improvisation (also known as Musical Extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. Thus, musical ideas in improvisation are spontaneous, but may be based on chord changes in classical music. Because improvisation is a performative act and depends on instrumental technique, improvisation is a skill. There are musicians who have never improvised and other musicians who have devoted their entire lives to improvisation. Throughout the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods, improvisation was a highly valued skill. Francesco Landini, Adrian Willaert, Diego Ortiz, Frescobaldi, J.S. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and many other famous composers and musicians were known especially for their improvisational skills. Improvisation might have played an important role in the monophonic period. The earliest treatises on polyphony, such as the Musica enchiriadis (ninth century), make plain that added parts were imp...
