Instrumental Improvisation

Instrumental Improvisation is a music performance practice within instrumental music education in which a performer spontaneously generates melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic material in real time, adhering to stylistic or structural constraints of a given musical context, thereby distinguishing it from notated performance or vocal improvisation.

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6.6K

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235

Authors

122

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Instrumental Music Education

Children

Articulation In ImprovisationAtonal ImprovisationContemporary Classical ImprovisationImprovisation Across StylesImprovisation TranscriptionImprovisational InteractionLearning By EarPattern-based ImprovisationRhythmic VocabularyTonal Improvisation

Publications

147

Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation

Charles J. Limb, Allen R. Braun · PLoS ONE · 2008 · 773 citations · Full text

Humanities, Neuroscience, Psychology +17

How Jazz Musicians Improvise

P. N. Johnson‐Laird · Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal · 2002 · 280 citations

Humanities, Musicology, Improvisation +13

Cortical Regions Involved in the Generation of Musical Structures during Improvisation in Pianists

Sara Bengtsson, Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Fredrik Ullén · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · 2007 · 211 citations

Humanities, Neuroscience, Psychology +17

In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation

David Henderson, Bruno Nettl, Melinda Russell · Notes · 1999 · 203 citations

Humanities, Performance Studies, Performing Arts +12

Dimensions of Music Improvisation

Michele Biasutti, Luigi Frezza · Creativity Research Journal · 2009 · 172 citations

Humanities, Music Education, Musicology +16

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Authors

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Bruno Nettl
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
4 publications · 326 citations
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Melinda Russell
3 publications · 309 citations
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Pamela Burnard
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
3 publications · 282 citations
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Martin Norgaard
Georgia State University, United States
3 publications · 104 citations
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Scott Driscoll
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
3 publications · 79 citations
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Institutions

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Music Educators Journal
11 publications · 388 citations
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Journal of Research in Music Education
7 publications · 339 citations
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Music Perception An Interdisciplinary Journal
6 publications · 485 citations
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International Journal of Music Education
IJME · 6 publications · 222 citations
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The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association
5 publications · 79 citations
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