"Making Music: Improvisation for Organists shows that the expression of one's musical thoughts spontaneously and coherently presumes neither a virtuosic command of the instrument nor a magisterial command of music theory. Jan Overduin shows that the great impediment to effective…
The main theme running through this volume is that coherence is a mental phenomenon rather than a property of the spoken or written text, or of the social situation. Coherence emerges during speech production-and-comprehension, allowing the speech receiver to form roughly the sa…
The DJs and laptop performers of electronic dance music use preexistent elements such as records and digital samples to create extended improvisations. Analysis of these technologically mediated performances reveals a complex dynamic in which a modular approach to musical struct…