Traditional Iranian music is not based on musical scores. Instead, traditional melody types are passed down orally. In his new book “Traditional Iranian music — Orality, physicality and improvisation, ...

Improvisation is a vital part of an elementary general music education. While some music teachers successfully include improvisation in music instruction, others have fears and face challenges when ...

As the twelve essays in this collection edited by Daniel Fischlin and Eric Porter attest, improvisation means different things to different people, and manifests itself differently from one culture to ...

Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...

Yoon Jeong Heo is so active that it’s almost surprising she doesn’t single-handedly generate combustible energy during the course of one of her average working days. But there is nothing remotely ...

We thought it would be a fun exercise to conduct various searches on jazz and compile the results. What are the defining characteristics of jazz? After all the searching, only a handful of elements ...

In this lesson, students will view the MUSIC episode, which features the skilled craftwork required to make ukuleles, trumpets, banjos, guitars, and timpani mallets. Students will hear musicians ...

When it comes to innovations in music pedagogy, there are several exciting developments you can’t ignore. Over the past couple of decades, music education has undergone significant changes, such as ...

By Amy "Frankie" Felegy for Arts Midwest. Broadcast version by Judith Ruiz-Branch for Illinois News Connection reporting for ...

PianoFest will conclude Saturday, October 25, with an all-day competition that showcases pre-college and collegiate pianists ...

Enthusiastically participating in a series of rhythmic exercises, 37 restless second-graders from Blackshear Elementary School made the Draylen Mason Music Studio their classroom on the morning of May ...