Learning from musicians better than me. The practice of copying from recordings in jazz students’ instrumental practise
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I: Aural perspectives. On musical learning and practice in higher music education, s. 75-95Sammendrag
The article gives an account of the practice of copying from recordings, as
a part of jazz students’ instrumental practise. The article is based on a PhD
thesis, which was designed as a qualitative interview study with 13 Norwegian
and Swedish jazz students, within an activity theoretical framework. Results
show that copying as learning practice is considered to have different outcomes,
where acquiring a specific musical content or musical ’language’, as
well as developing a generic procedural improvisation competency were perceived
outcomes. The character of the learning objects were connected to different
copying modes, differentiated in three main categories: detail-oriented
copying, concept-oriented copying, and improvising along with recordings.
The three modes, though different in character, all involved improvising. This
was interpreted as a means to personalizing the acquired knowledge in order
to operationalize it in their improvisatory performing practice.
Keywords: instrumental practise, jazz, improvisation, copying, recordings,
activity theory, learning outcome, learning object, copying