Abstract:In this paper, we aim to reproduce and expand on some of the empirical experiments that have been used to address the aesthetics of listening to improvised music. We focus on a piece of music that we consider to be a comprovisation, a term used for music that is a blend of composition and improvisation. The responses offered by the participants in our experiment were somewhat ambiguous, as there was no clear consensus in regard to the suggested musical form or the quality of judgments about the compositional a… Show more
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