ref: Kratus, J. (1996). A developmental approach to teaching music improvisation. Int. J. Music Educ. 26, 27–38. doi: 10.1177/025576149502600103The sixth level, stylistic improvisation, emerges when the improviser has mastered one or more improvisational styles and has learned the characteristics which define the style. At this level the teacher’s role is to help students to “develop a performance repertoire of the specific rhythms, melodic patterns, harmonic characteristics and timbral qualities that serve to identify a given style” (Kratus, 1996, p. 35).
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