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formulaic-improvisation · adler1974-manual-formulaic-composition
- Claim ID
- formulaic-improvisation
- Assertion
- Adler proposed that bluegrass banjoists solve the problems of improvisation in a way closely analogous to the oral formulae described by Albert Lord: licks are built from smaller formulae, a banjoist may know hundreds of licks and thousands of formulae, and breaks may be improvised by combining them; even breaks that seem memorized are built from the same units.
- Quote
A banjoist may know hundreds of licks and thousands of formulae; in fact, it seems that one of the main tasks of the beginner is the learning and internal systematizing of formulae and licks. By combining these licks, banjo breaks may be improvised.
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- page: 56–58
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