Jazz Improvisation: A Recommended Sequential Format of Instruction

• Main Author: Zwick, Robert A. (Robert Alan)
• Other Authors: Cross, Charles Jack
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: North Texas State University 1987
• Subjects: jazz music; music instruction; teaching methods; musical improvisation; musical extemporization; textbooks; Jazz > Instruction and study.; Improvisation (Music) > Instruction and study.; Music > Textbooks.
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330678/

The problem with which this study is concerned is that of developing a recommended sequential format for jazz improvisation instruction. The method of content analysis is used. Seventeen subject matter categories (instructional areas) are established upon which the data is analyzed. Coding instructions are constructed with adjustments for additional emphasis placed on the instruction areas by the respective authors. By selecting instructional areas recorded above the median per cent of emphasis, and co-ordinating these areas with the mean sequential introduction of each instructional area, a recommended format of instruction is developed.