The Practice of Musical Improvisation

Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet are both well-known improvisational musicians and active composers. They have worked with countless improvising musicians across the globe and have published dozens of recordings with some of the most influential labels in the field.

Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Starting an Improvisation
2 The Mental State During an Improvisation
3 Listening to the Other Musicians, the Human Factor, the Strategies
4 Memory and Form
5 Process versus Aesthetic Result, Improvisation as a Tool to Make Music versus Music as a Tool to Improvise, Improvisation versus Composition
6 Talking about Improvisation and Music in General
7 Non-idiomatic Improvisation, Experimental Music, Genre Labels
8 Silence and Dynamics
9 Sounds as Material
10 Instrument and Technique
11 Solo Improvisation
12 The Concert Situation, the Audience, the Published Recordings
13 Some Political Issues
14 How I Came to Play This Music
15 How I Listen to Music, the Music I Listen to, Some Hidden Gardens
16 Miscellaneous
List of the Musicians Interviewed
An Ear for Discord: Improvise, They Say
Diagrams