Name
Learning to Improvise: Readiness and Harmonic Audiation
Date & Time
Thursday, July 30, 2026, 3:15 PM - 4:05 PM
Description

Everyone can learn to improvise musically, given the right music experiences and instruction. In this workshop, we will explore a roadmap for general music and choral teachers who are striving to help their students learn to audiate harmonically and express their own ideas through improvisation. Participants will engage in carefully sourced lesson plans rooted in the sequential model (resting tone audiation, chord roots by rote and audiation, harmonic audiation, and improvising over harmonies, then chord roots), its application to major and minor tonality with tonic and dominant functions, the addition of subdominant functions, and supplemental materials, including harmonic tapestries and folk/popular music.

Location Name
514A
Full Address
Palais des Congres - Montréal Convention Centre
1001, Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle
Montreal QC H2Z 1H2
Canada
Presenting Author(s)
David Potter