Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for ensemble improvisation
- Confirm improvisation requirements in consultation with relevant people
- Agree on communication strategies within the group to facilitate a seamless performance, moving between ensemble and improvisation sections
- Listen to live or recorded improvisations by professional musicians to provide ideas
- Rehearse technical, musical, structural, segue and improvisation aspects of the performance as required, both in private and with the ensemble rehearsal
- Contribute to ensemble
- Contribute solo improvisation
- Respond accurately to starting cues
- Sustain musical impetus in the solo improvisation through dynamic use of musical elements
- Maintain stylistic cohesion in the realisation of harmony, melody, and/or rhythm, form, style and musical expression
- Listen carefully to other performers, responding musically to their work and adjusting own performance appropriately
- Provide a clear cue to the ensemble to finish the solo section
- Ensure that the duration of the solo section accords with the custom and practice of the group and/or musical style
- Observe work health and safety (WHS) principles during performance
- Acknowledge applause according to the custom and practice of the group and/or musical style
- Evaluate improvisation
- Discuss and assess with appropriate people the extent to which the improvisation has explored its potential in terms of content, style and structure of the improvisation
- Record performances where possible for evaluation purposes
- Review current performance against previous performances to assess development of self and ensemble
- Use own analysis and feedback from others to inform future performances