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==Objectives==

*Students will be familiar with improvisation in historical contexts, including baroque ornamentation, basso continuo, and cadenza.
*Students will be familiar with various types of aleatoric music.
*Students will be familiar with jazz improvisation and jams.

==Resources==

==== Readings ====

* ''Music Theory Online:''
** [http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.17.23.2/mto.17.23.2.hannaford.html Hannaford, "Subjective (Re)positioning in Musical Improvisation: Analyzing the Work of Five Female Improvisers"]

==Class Activities==

*Discussion and exploration of different elements of classical ornamentation, and discussion of improvisational performance practice in Baroque and Classical music
*Discussion of figured bass and basso continuo
*Discussion of improvisational performance practice in jazz and popular music
*Discussion of twentieth-century aleatoric music
*Guided in-class improvisation in one of more above styles

==Assignments==

*Identification and analysis of different types of Baroque and Classical ornamentation in written and recorded music
*Written realization of figured bass
*Improvisation over a rhythm section playing changes
*Transcription and analysis of a short improvised solo
*Composition of a short piece which uses an aspect of indeterminacy

==Notes==

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