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Applied Improvisation in Music (AIM), Musical improvisation as Means ofLaajuus (5 ECTS)

Course unit code: KX00CQ79

General information


Credits
5 ECTS

Content

1. Introduction

While musical improvisation has artistic value as a performing art, this project focuses on musical improvisation as a means to an end. The goal is to provide the participating institutes and participants with deep understanding on how improvisation works through interaction and as a joint mental processes. Moreover, the AIM-project explores and documents how human improvisation applies to other disciplines in education and human activity. By this application, the project aims at developing further learning methods, communication, emotional understanding, and professional identities in each field of interest.

In order to structure the AIM with more concrete themes, the following subprojects offer insight into the possible variation. The methods of improvisation in the AIM-project are connected to:
1. Music pedagogy for instruments, voice, schools for both on-to-one and group work
2. Music theory and developing methods for understanding music
3. Music history, styles in compositions and in performing
4. Composing and arranging music, as well as developing working methods by virtual solutions, movement and sound production, developing new technology
5. Opera, drama, theatre, literature, poems, song writing
6. Dance pedagogy, performances with dancers and musicians
7. Developing learning environments with disciplines other than music: theatre, visual arts, nursing, gerontology, theology, team-work and leadership

The topics above are naturally connected to each other, and the AIM-project integrates them by the use of the improvisation methods. However, in order to maintain and support the expert knowledge within each subproject, they has to be organized independently. The following list below will describe the goals and management of each subproject in detail.

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