2001 Volume 31 Issue 2-3 Pages 43-48
The ability to improvise is important for instruction on music education, the player's solfège, and for fostering fundamental music ability through keyboard harmony and playing church organ music on a keyboard instrument. The importance of improvisation is recently seen as a reaction to music education as a technique for attaching importance to only one score. In music education in Japan, however, there are many objectives regarding the content and methods of improvisation, the least important of which is that there is no system. For improved recognition of the keyboard instrument by a person engaged in music education, the focus of improvising is fixed upon the sequence and valid methods of acquisition. Variations on the actual improvisation are also considered. The musicians learning to improvise enlarge music recognition. The elements of various types of music are the focal point, and by developing abundant music techniques, music can be expressed abundantly.
