Links

General

• On the Edge (UK television documentary on Improvisation narrated by Derek Bailey) (parts 2-4 on ubu.com)
• “Notation” in Grove Music (Wesleyan students only)
• The Nature of Music (Karl Signell radio programs)
• Theorizing Improvisation (MTO 2013)

Brain Research

• Empirical Musicology Review
• The Dana Foundation
  • The Neuroscience of Improvisation
  • Neural Substates of Musical Creativity
  • Musical Creativity and the Brain
• Language
  • “How Brains See Music as Language” (The Atlantic, 2014)
  • Evidence Rebuts Chomsky’s Theory of Language Learning (Scientific American, 2016)
• Guitar Players’ Brains
• “Something Weird Happens to Your Brain When You Start Improvising” (businessinsider, 5/2015)
• “New Ways into the Brain’s Music Room” (NYT, 2/8/2016)
• A Statistical Analysis of the Relationship between Harmonic Surprise and Preference in Popular Music” (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5/2017)

Mode

• “Mode,” Harold Powers and others (Grove Music Online) (Wesleyan access only)

Rhythm

• “How to Talk about Musical Meter,” Justin London

Language

• Semiotics for Beginners (Paradigms and Syntagms)
• Rhetorical Tropes (metaphor, metonym)
• Linguistics 001 (U. Penn)
• Introduction to Linguistics (MIT Open Courseware)

Oral Traditions

• Voices of the Rainforest, Kaluli people, Papua New Guinea (Feld, 1991)
• Bosavi: Rainforest Music of Papua New Guinea (Feld, 2001)
• In the Moment: Poetry Duels and Improvisation (2022) (folkstreams.net)