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AuszugImprovise yourself? To hear music – yes. To make music – as well. But to create music oneself in this very moment? That's what many a musician fears. If this be the case, „Just play!“ seeks to encourage you to take the first step to improvise yourself. What makes improvising so valuable? „We have art in order not to die of the truth“, Nietzsche writes. Improvisation in music has withdrawn to some very few places. On the pipe organ improvisation easily lapses into a mere copy of style and the interpreter steps back behind the monolith which the organ is. But the key is the thing itself: Precisely because an improvisation cannot be repeated and can be compared to composing without pencil and paper it shows in its fleetingness and fragility all elements of the moment. The controlled power of the organ sound fills space, structures time and as the „art of illusion“ can impressively counterbalance your own construction of reality. Everything is decided in the first bars. Nothing can be drawn back. Tension and release can be experienced and heard as the basic rhythm of your life. What makes improvisation seem so difficult? 'Long preparatory studies, a thorough knowledge of harmonology, counterpoint, particularly the fugue and orchestration'1 are often mentioned as the basic requirements for improvisation. All this is certainly desirable – and often repeated, but sometimes not only the approach to the art of improvisation and the time to reflect it are lacking. Often the first step itself is missing, which should be undertaken in an easy and relaxed manner. How does „Just play!“ work? This book is meant to be an invitation to you to approach improvisation on the organ. „The proof of the pudding is in the eating“, which also means that you can try it, actively, try it, just do it. The way which is shown here is only one of many, but I hope you find as much pleasure trying it as I had while writing it. So let's begin.
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Just play!, Peter Ewers
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- 2013
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- Titel
- Just play!
- Untertitel
- Invitation to improvisation
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Peter Ewers
- Verlag
- vpe
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2013
- ISBN10
- 3928243365
- ISBN13
- 9783928243360
- Reihe
- Musicology
- Kategorie
- Musikbücher
- Beschreibung
- AuszugImprovise yourself? To hear music – yes. To make music – as well. But to create music oneself in this very moment? That's what many a musician fears. If this be the case, „Just play!“ seeks to encourage you to take the first step to improvise yourself. What makes improvising so valuable? „We have art in order not to die of the truth“, Nietzsche writes. Improvisation in music has withdrawn to some very few places. On the pipe organ improvisation easily lapses into a mere copy of style and the interpreter steps back behind the monolith which the organ is. But the key is the thing itself: Precisely because an improvisation cannot be repeated and can be compared to composing without pencil and paper it shows in its fleetingness and fragility all elements of the moment. The controlled power of the organ sound fills space, structures time and as the „art of illusion“ can impressively counterbalance your own construction of reality. Everything is decided in the first bars. Nothing can be drawn back. Tension and release can be experienced and heard as the basic rhythm of your life. What makes improvisation seem so difficult? 'Long preparatory studies, a thorough knowledge of harmonology, counterpoint, particularly the fugue and orchestration'1 are often mentioned as the basic requirements for improvisation. All this is certainly desirable – and often repeated, but sometimes not only the approach to the art of improvisation and the time to reflect it are lacking. Often the first step itself is missing, which should be undertaken in an easy and relaxed manner. How does „Just play!“ work? This book is meant to be an invitation to you to approach improvisation on the organ. „The proof of the pudding is in the eating“, which also means that you can try it, actively, try it, just do it. The way which is shown here is only one of many, but I hope you find as much pleasure trying it as I had while writing it. So let's begin.