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• Practicing with a senventeenth century organ handbook: observations on possible approaches of P. Spiridion’s Nova Instructio pro pulsandis organis (1670) (2017) author(s): Adrien Pièce published in: Research Catalogue
  Spiridionis a Monte Carmelo’s Nova instructio pro pulsandis organis […] (Bamberg, 1670) is a noteworthy source for keyboard improvisation in the south German, Italian-fashioned style. This handbook, which is located directly in Frescobaldi’s legacy and which often quotes him, offers tools to master musical forms that are useful for liturgical improvisation.  Conceived as a compendium of musical patterns, the publication contains few textual elements. It allows the player full freedom to combine, assimilate and create his own music with musical elements such as cadentiae, passaggi and canzonette. This paper attempts to describe how such a source can be brought to life through a personal practice which involves both experience and analysis. 
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  Tactile Paths: on and through Notation for Improvisers (2016) author(s): Christopher Williams connected to: Academy of Creative and Performing Arts published in: Research Catalogue
  Tactile Paths is a native digital, media-rich PhD dissertation. It aims to articulate and expand the nexus of notation and improvisation in contemporary and experimental music. The project interweaves direct artistic experience with insights from improvisation studies, the social sciences, philosophy, and various scholarship in the arts to reveal methodological connections among diverse artists such as Richard Barrett, Cornelius Cardew, Malcolm Goldstein, Lawrence Halprin, Bob Ostertag, Ben Patterson, and the author. By focusing on how notation is used, rather than on what it represents in an abstract sense, the author shows how written scores emerge from and feed back into ongoing improvisational processes. Thus, it is argued, they are not fixed texts whose primary purpose is to prescribe and preserve, but rather tactile paths in the improviser’s ever-crescent musical and social environment. This practice-based approach aims to lay the conceptual groundwork for theorizing and broadening the creative relevance of work whose importance to practitioners belies its marginal presence in academia and institutions.
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  Tradisjoner på spill (2017) author(s): Ingfrid Breie Nyhus published in: Research Catalogue
  TRADISJONER PÅ SPILL
 Fortolkning og utøving mellom slåtter og pianisme Hvilke musikalske muligheter kan oppståi sjiktet mellom utøvertradisjonene klassisk fortolkning og folkemusikktradering, hva avdekkes når tradisjonene flettes sammen? Pianist Ingfrid Breie Nyhus har spilt fra og mellom tradisjonenes perspektiver, med deres ulikheter og tangeringer; hun har lett i rammeverket til fremføringstradisjonene, med referansene som er i spill, og med estetiske vurderinger ved flygelet. Hva kan det bety åbli inspirert av folkemusikk, og det på et piano?
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