Classical Improv Jam 3 – Pulsed Drone (video)
Third in a series of duo improvisation videos that illustrate improv games from Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians. Follow
View ArticleNew Book! Vocal Improvisation Games for Singers and Choral Groups
GIA (Chicago) has just published Vocal Improvisation Games for Singers and Choral Groups by me and my co-author Patrice Madura Ward-Steinmann of Indiana University. More than 100 improvisation games...
View ArticleNachmanovitch Improv Workshop
Stephen Nachmanovitch is the author of the mother of all improv books – Free Play. Everyone breathing shoujld read this book. I just received notice that he will be doing an improv workshop with Maria...
View ArticleImprovisation Games for Classical Musicians, Vol. II is out!
My new book was just published by GIA! The first volume of Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians was published in 2008 with something like 566 nonjazz, non-notated (i.e. prose descriptions)...
View ArticleNEW BOOK: The Creative Hornist by Jeffrey Agrell
My new book will be released on amazon.com in the next couple weeks. It is The Creative Hornist: Essays, Rants, and Odes for the Classical Hornist on Creative Music Making I am in the last stages...
View ArticleThe Creative Hornist – Part 1 – Content
New book: The Creative Hornist Contents of Part 1: Getting Started: Who’s Afraid of Big Bad Creating? Ch. 1 – Being Columbus Ch. 2 – Do You Ever Play Your Horn? Ch. 3 – Beware of Philip Farkas Ch. 4 –...
View ArticleThe Creative Hornist – Content – Part 2
The Creative Hornist – new book Contents of Part 2: Adding Wow to Technical Routines Ch. 6 – The End of Scales I. Introduction II. Alternate Scale Proficiency Test Preparation III. Making Music Ch. 7...
View ArticleThe Creative Hornist – book – Content: Parts 3 & 4
The Creative Hornist (published late September 2017) Part 3: Inkiness Playing: The Benefits of an Aural Approach Chapter 10: Recreating Recreating: Using Aural Tradition to Add Pizzazz to...
View ArticleThe Creative Hornist – book – Contents: Parts 5, 6, & 7
The Creative Hornist – Contents Part 5: Composing Ch. 19 Composing Made Easy Ch. 20 Blueprint for Success Ch. 21 The Ultimate Etude Machine Ch. 22 Performers as Composers Ch. 23 The Personal Etude Part...
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