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Improvisation And Composed Music
Apparently, Beethoven called it “Extemporizing”. Not everyone is aware that improvising was a valued skill in olden days as well. Every great composer used it to some degree. It’s a skill that can be learned and worth acquiring.
This borrowed from PianoWorld forum...
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Wow very interesting. Also horrendous looking forum. Thank you for no ads @Michael. If I didn’t have everything you put out already I’d buy the next app just for that alone ha.
@mjcouche, PianoWorld is worthwhile, but it negatively contrasts with ABF in several ways. There is often a snarkiness that is rarely heard here and, whereas no question is condescended to on ABF, that is not the case on PianoWorld.
Whitmer’s Art of Improvisation may be of interest to those wishing to explore improv from a non-jazz perspective - it was originally written as a manual for organists, with an eye towards church playing, I think. Check it out: https://archive.org/details/artofimprovisati010292mbp/page/n7/mode/2up
Arnold Schoenberg supposedly wrote ""Composition is slowed down improvisation":
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/jazz/music-101/
Wayne Shorter says “Composition is just improvisation slowed down, and improvisation is just composition sped up" in the book Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter.
I recall hearing a similar statement from either Herbie Hancock or Chick Corea. I'm sure all of those guys were familiar with Schoenberg.
I recall getting an emotional reaction from a guy who was doing weekend gigs as a keyboard player and did something else for a living during the week. He had formed a worldview that did not allow for a continuum between improvisation and composition. He simply could not imagine that it is possible to compose something on the fly, and had a firmly held belief that all solos must have been worked out in advance (composed), while ironically not understanding that to compose something is, in fact, to improvise something - you're just taking your sweet time doing it, without the added stress of a rhythm section burning at 250 bpm.