Getting Started With Vocal Improvisation

Designed to help introduce vocal improvisation into choral teaching. Shows how improvisation can be used in both the general music classroom and the choral classroom.

Preface

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Why Teach Vocal Improvisation?

1

(4)

Freeing the Voice

5

(4)

Even Children Can Improvise

9

(12)

Popular Music, Gospel, and Blues Improvisation

21

(8)

Swing, Scat, and Authentic Vocal Jazz Improvisation

29

(10)

Classical Choral Improvisation

39

(12)

World Music Improvisation

51

(8)

Can and Should We Assess Vocal Improvisation?

59

(4)

References

63

(3)

Acknowledgments

66

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Getting Started With Vocal Improvisation

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