Improvisation

11.6, Gilad Rabinovitch, “Reconstructing a Nineteenth-Century Fantasy: Between Model Composition and Reimagining Improvisation”: this video reports on the author’s creative reconstruction of a fantasy based on pedagogical materials in Carl Czerny’s Systematic Introduction to Improvisation Op. 200 (1983 [1829]); suitable for piano repertoire, form and analysis, music history, and performance practice courses.
11.4: Ben Geyer, “Improvising the Changes in a Miles Davis Rhythm Section” - explores the harmonic variety of improvised chords in “Bye, Bye Blackbird.” Provides a foil to classical conceptions of consonance/dissonance and harmonic function; can frame the study of jazz harmony or explore deeper possibilities in improvisation