Journal•ISSN: 0027-4631
The Musical Quarterly
Oxford University Press
About: The Musical Quarterly is an academic journal published by Oxford University Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Musical & Opera. It has an ISSN identifier of 0027-4631. Over the lifetime, 2041 publications have been published receiving 13979 citations. The journal is also known as: Musical Quarterly.
Topics: Musical, Opera, Music, Symphony, Musicology
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TL;DR: Bruno Nettl as mentioned in this paper was one of the pioneers of musical improvisation in the world of music, and published The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts (revised and reissued in 2005).
Abstract: From an early age Bruno Nettl was fascinated with musical improvisation. Born in
Prague in 1930, he was inspired early in his life by the discovery of unscored Indian
classical music. Nettl and his family moved to the USA in 1939, and in 1964 he
began teaching at the University of Illinois. Much of his most important work has
been done with the music of indigenous peoples in North America, Iran, and South
India. In 1983 Nettl published his seminal work The Study of Ethnomusicology:
Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts (revised and reissued in 2005). In 1998, with
Melinda Russell, he edited In the Course Of Performance: Studies in the World of
Musical Improvisation, and in 2009, with Gabriel Solis, he edited Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society. Four decades after it appeared, “Thoughts on
Improvisation” remains an invaluable introduction to the worldwide practice of musical improvisation, which in fact questions the ways in which we compartmentalise
music-making: “Should we not then speak perhaps of rapid and slow composition
rather than of composition juxtaposed to improvisation?”
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