Video: Susan McClary on the Decline of Improvisation in the 19th Century
Here’s a great video (well, it’s a talking-head segment with great content), titled “Improvisation and Canon inWestern Music” in which musicologist Susan McClary discusses the decline of improvisation during the nineteenth century as the canon of “great works” grew. It’s from ArtistHouse Music, which turns out to have lot of improvisation videos (as well as [...]
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