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improvisation: a standalone construct

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improvisation1 CONSTRUCTImprovisationBERLINER · ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

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Ethnomusicology

making music in real time within a learned body of models, phrases and rules, studied in jazz.

In ethnomusicology, improvisation refers to making music in real time within a learned body of models, phrases and rules, studied in jazz. This meaning comes from Berliner (1994) in Thinking in jazz. Here improvisation is this specific meaning.[1]

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  1. Berliner, P. (1994). Thinking in jazz. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226043807

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