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Landau, Andrew T.; Limb, Charles J. – Music Educators Journal, 2017
Current research in the neuroscience of musical creativity reveals promising implications for the value of learning to improvise. This article outlines the neuroscientific literature on musical improvisation and relates these findings to the benefits of musical creativity. We begin by describing the neural substrates of flow with respect to the…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Neurosciences, Music, Creativity
Ertürkler, Aysen; Bagci, Hakan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2019
The aim of this study is to reveal a new and unique technique that can be used in music lessons and other courses and to determine the impact of the Enriched Creative Activities Program with the Aytürk Technique, which was developed by Ertürkler, on the creative thinking abilities of students. The study was designed according to a pretest-posttest…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creativity, Music, Music Education
Norgaard, Martin – International Journal of Music Education, 2017
Research investigating improvisational skill development in adolescent learners is scant. In this study interviews with developing jazz improvisers are used to characterize the skill-building process. The findings were considered in light of two views of skill learning. In one view, students progress through several discrete levels, while in a…
Descriptors: Music, Creative Activities, Skill Development, Adolescents
Parsons, Joshua Ryan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
General creativity and, more specifically, creative thinking in music are valuable qualities that should be fostered in music education for personal, professional, and societal reasons. In order for band directors to successfully integrate musical creativity into their classroom curriculum and serve as resources for other content area teachers…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Faculty Development, Creativity, Music
Clauhs, Matthew – Music Educators Journal, 2018
Approaches to teaching music notation and instrumental technique have been standardized and codified in the United States with great success in beginning instrumental programs. While these skills are important, we do a disservice to students if we do not equally develop comprehensive musicianship and creative thinking at a young age. Creating…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Music Teachers, Musical Instruments
de Bruin, Leon R. – Music Education Research, 2019
For musicians, learning to improvise requires individual and collaborative skill and knowledge that in experts is acquired over years of immersion and enculturation. Learning formally, informally or a combination of both, improvisers 'learn to learn' by evolving meta-cognitive capabilities necessary to develop and refine improvisational expertise.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Informal Education, Music Activities, Creative Activities
de Bruin, Leon R. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2018
The way an improviser practices is a vital and significant aspect to a musician's means and capacities of expression. Expert music performers utilize extensive self-regulatory processes involving planning, strategic development, and systemized approaches to learning and reflective practice. Scholars posit that these processes are constructivist…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Expertise, Music, Music Education
de Bruin, Leon Rene – International Journal of Music Education, 2018
Music institutions predominantly utilize the one-to-one lesson in developing and supporting music students' learning of skill and knowledge. This article explores the effect that interpersonal interaction plays in shaping pedagogical applications between teacher and student. Observing the learning of improvisation within this individualized social…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Creative Activities, Phenomenology
Modell, Harold – HAPS Educator, 2018
A successful active learning community in which students engage in meaningful learning is characterized by a number of critical elements. These include a safe learning environment in which both instructor and students are willing to take intellectual risks and share their thoughts about content being discussed. Although many instructors recognize…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Music, Communities of Practice
Wehr, Erin L. – International Journal of Music Education, 2016
Jazz has long been recognized as a male-dominated field, with females traditionally having only limited acceptance, often in the roles of singer and pianist. Researchers have explored sources of the gender imbalance in the field of jazz and jazz education, but there is no theory or framework to organize such findings. This directed content…
Descriptors: Females, Music, Musicians, Sex Stereotypes
Lapidaki, Eleni – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2016
This article considers the contribution that Jacques Derrida's work "Of Hospitality" might make to higher music education as it unsettles the usual ascription of normative value to learning and teaching music at the university. Along these lines, what is most at issue in the encounter with Derrida's thinking is the concomitant notion of…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Music Teachers, Teaching Methods
Bjerstedt, Sven – British Journal of Music Education, 2016
Theoretical approaches to learning in practice-based jazz improvisation contexts include situated learning and ecological perspectives. This article focuses on how interest-driven, self-sustaining jazz learning activities can be matched against the concepts of stolen knowledge (Brown & Duguid, 1996) and landscape of learning (Bjerstedt, 2014).…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Creative Activities, Music Activities
Gilbert, Danni – Music Educators Journal, 2016
This article explores a comprehensive, student-centered alternative to traditional ensemble instruction with the goal of promoting better opportunities for musical independence and lifelong musicianship. Developed by Caron Collins from the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York-Potsdam, the Curious, Collaborative, Creativity…
Descriptors: Creativity, Music, Music Education, Musicians
Tomlinson, Michelle M. – International Journal of Music Education, 2016
This case study employed multimodal methods and visual analysis to explore how a young multilingual student used music improvisation to form a speech rap. This student, recently arrived in Australia from Ethiopia, created piano music that was central to his music identity and that simultaneously, through dialogue with his mother, enhanced his…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Creative Activities, Music, Musical Composition
Palaigeorgiou, George; Pouloulis, Christos – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
Ubiquitous music is a relatively new research area which seeks ways to involve novices in music learning, playing and improvisation. Despite the ambitious goals, ubiquitous music is still unknown territory in schools. In this study, we have tried to identify whether ubiquitous music environments can enable novice music students to participate in…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Fairy Tales, Teaching Methods