2019 Lightning Talks

The Interest Group on Improvisation will be holding partially "flipped" lightning talks on improvisation during our interest group meeting in Columbus, OH, Saturday Nov. 9, 5:45-7:45 PM. The lightning talks for the session are the following:

1. Jesse Gardner (CUNY Graduate Center), “Bailey and Bakhtin on Free Improvisation and the Constitution of Genre”
2. Joon Park (University of Arkansas), “The Death of the Improviser and the Multiplicity of Improvisation”
3. Derek Remeš (Music Hochschule Lucerne, Switzerland), “Improvised Chorale Harmonization in the Circle of J. S. Bach: Historical Models for Today’s Classroom”
4. Philip Duker (University of Delaware), “Integrating Historical Improvisation into Core Theory Classes”
5. Peter Schubert (McGill University), “Visualization in Renaissance Improvisation”

Each of the presenters has written a version of the talk, which you will find below. We invite interested scholars to read the short papers ahead of the conference and offer questions, comments, or brief responses to help guide our discussion at the meeting itself. We will organize these materials into topics for discussion ahead of the meeting. Please email your responses to Andrew and Gilad by October 18th at the latest, so that we can allow time for the authors to react to them in revising their lightning talks for the conference. If you would like to contribute questions/comments/reflections, please e-mail us to request the password to the PDFs below.

We ask all respondents to maintain a collegial and professional tone. While scholarly disagreements are to be expected, we would like to facilitate a pleasant and productive conversation ahead of the conference and in the session itself.

All best,

Andrew Goldman (UWO) and Gilad Rabinovitch (FSU)

andrewjgoldman@gmail.com; grabinovitch@fsu.edu