Advocacy for improvisation in instrumental learning
Volker BIESENBENDER

This book brings together several lectures given by the author thanks to his numerous travels around the world and his various musical experiences, this one, comparing himself to local performers, virtuosos of non-European cultures, deduces that the learning processes Classical Westerns are just one of many possibilities to learn to play an instrument.
Opposing the rationalism of pedagogies inherited from the nineteenth century, he proposes a teaching that would place auditory perception and creative faculties at the forefront. A reflection that reconciles instrumental practice and the human being.
A book to think for instrumentalists, professionals or amateurs, teachers and students.