IN 1938 Ernst Ferand published what continues to be the only large, scholarly book on the
subject of musical improvisation.'A rather thorough search reveals that this book was but …

THE NATURE and significance of improvisation in music are not much discussed by
philosophers. Such mention as is made of the subject usually takes the form of occa-sional …

The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music in the postclassical and
romantic periods, Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music …

SMPROVISATION, the somewhat mystical art of performing music'immediate reproduction of
simultaneous mental processes, is but daily fare of the practicing jazz musician. Just as the …

While conventional music analysis has been largely concerned with composed-notated
music, very little investigation has been made in the area of improvisation. This disparity is …

EVEN had there not been a special seminar on notation and performance at Darmstadt this
year [1964], it would be obvious that a great deal of new music has come to be intimately …

Originally published in the 1940s, Paul Hindemith's remarkable textbooks are still the
outstanding works of their kind. In contrast to many musical textbooks written by academic …

1. It is often thought that a little inventive ability suffices for composition. This, however, is not
true. Invention itself is not enough even though it may solve half the problem, for [it is true …

THE following outline of the Evolution of Musical Art was undertaken, at the invitation of Mr.
Kegan Paul, somewhere about the year 1884. Its appearance was delayed by the constantly …