Week 8 - October 24: Analytical approaches; performance theory; the study of musical improvisation
Background readings:
Browse Blum 1992.
Small 1998: Prelude.
Nettl 1974.
Assigned readings:
Qureshi 1987.
Nettl & Russell 1998: chapter 12 (by Smith).
Nooshin 1998.
Qureshi 1994.
Optional:
Herndon 1971; Herndon 1974; Widdess 2006.