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Huovinen, Erkki; Keipi, Aaro – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2022
Studies in musical improvisation show that musicians and even children are able to communicate intended emotions to listeners at will. To understand emotional expressivity in music as an art form, communicative success needs to be related to improvisers' thought processes and listeners' aesthetic judgments. In the present study, we used…
Descriptors: Music Education, College Students, Creative Activities, Emotional Response
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Huovinen, Erkki; Tenkanen, Atte; Kuusinen, Vesa-Pekka – International Journal of Music Education, 2011
The aim of this article is to assess the relative merits of two approaches to teaching musical improvisation: a music-theoretical approach, focusing on chords and scales, and a "dramaturgical" one, emphasizing questions of balance, variation and tension. Adult students of music pedagogy, with limited previous experience in improvisation,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Creative Activities, Teacher Education