Harp Stories in the Improvisation
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Harp Stories in the Improvisation
By Vanessa D’Aversa
“What do you mean by jazz harp? What do you mean by improvisation? How do you improvise with the harp? “
Its often associates in the academic world, the harp idea, only to the orchestral or soloist world, and in the world of jazz as an extraneous instrument to any extemporaneous technique. Answering the most varied questions, affirming that the harp could be defined as one of the prototypes of the instrument with which humanity has dedicated a part of musical study through improvisation seemed very arduous.
This book therefore arises from the need to describe the ancient and newest extemporaneous practice techniques used on the harps in various historical periods of which they have been protagonists and did not extras.
The prefixed hypothesis was to define a new bibliographic reference point of executive practice at the beginning of jazz and improvisation studies, which can give the first basic knowledge and in which each harpist can be recognized.
After reading, the book could confuse the most dreadful, a string instrument so present in the story of improvisation as it could be marginal, in a historical period like jazz?