Dividing The Group

This item is not in the library — it is a part of: C. Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Intuitive Music: A Mini Handbook.

A group may be divided into many different smaller ones which probably will reveal very different playing! And they will present different kinds of challenges to individual musicians. Derek Bailey's improvisation festival Company Week and other arrangements are built on this simple principle. — Big groups can be divided into subgroups playing alternatingly or even making rounds — this may be further developed by the listening group telling about its associations and making a title as a starting-point for playing again, maybe aided by the teacher.

See also the section below (under "General topics") on Making Constellations.


The wording above is by Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen, as written in Intuitive Music: A Mini-Handbook, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 (Bergstrøm-Nielsen 2009, 11)



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