Preface ix
Bruno Nettl
Introduction 1
Gabriel Solis
PART ONE: SOCIETY
1. Jazz as Political and Musical Practice 21
Ingrid Monson
2. John Cage and Improvisation: An Unresolved Relationship 38
Sabine M. Feisst
3. When Traditional Improvisation Is Prohibited: Contemporary Ukrainian Funeral Laments and Burial Practices 52
Natalie Kononenko
4. The Juncture between Creation and Re-creation among Indonesian Reciters of the Qur'an 72
Anne K. Rasmussen
5. Genius, Improvisation, and the Narratives of Jazz History 90
Gabriel Solis
6. Formulas and Improvisation in Participatory Music 103
Thomas Turino
PART TWO: EDUCATION
7. Learning to Improvise Music, Improvising to Learn Music 119
Patricia Shehan Campbell
8. Improvising Mozart 143
Robert Levin
9. Keyboard Improvisation in the Baroque Period 150
Charlotte Mattax Moersch
10. Beyond the Improvisation Class: Learning to Improvise in a University Jazz Studies Program 171
John P. Murphy
11. On Learning the Radif and Improvisation in Iran 185
Bruno Nettl
12. Hindustani Sitar and Jazz Guitar Music: A Foray into Comparative Improvology 200
Stephen Slawek
13. Musical Improvisation in the Modern Dance Class: Techniques and Approaches in Fulfilling a Multi-Layered Role 221
John Toenjes
PART THREE: CREATION
14. Representations of Music Making 239
Stephen Blum
15. Improvisation and Related Terms in Middle-Period Jazz 263
Lawrence Gushee
16. Opening the Museum Window: Improvisation and Its Inscribed Values in Canonic Works by Chopin and Schumann 281
Robert S. Hatten
17. Improvisation in Beethoven's Creative Process 296
William Kinderman
18. Why Do They Improvise? Reflections on Meaning and Experience 313
Ali Jihad Racy
19. Preluding at the Piano 323
Nicholas Temperley
Contributors 343
Index 349
