The Meaningful Skills that Develop an Artist: A journey from the classical music to the contemporary music world

Authors

Àngela Moya Serrat

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Abstract

The following research has borned from my desire of nurturing the skills needed for performing with high-quality and craftsmanship with my violin, different contemporary music styles and improvising. This paper is a compilation of all the abilities I had to train during my studies in the Master of Contemporary Performance at Berklee College of Music in order to acquire the skills needed to perform in an exemplary manner in this contemporary music industry.

From my own experience, I determine which skills are really important for performing proficiently in contemporary music and jazz improvisation. Furthermore, I propose several exercises that I have created or have been effective to me in order to train progressively those abilities.

Furthermore, I also write about added skills obtained from the depth and hands-on experience into the music industry world like the knowledge about production, composing, arranging and business, as well as the knowledge acquired for managing tools of this contemporary world of music like ProTools and Sibelius.

Finally, I reflect on the conclusions about where I was and what I have developed during this research at Berklee College, being freedom the noun that summarises the union of all of these abilities.

Publication Date

7-1-2023

Campus

Valencia (Spain) Campus

Keywords

Violin; Improvisation; Classical Music; Pedagogy; Exercises; Abilities.

Recommended Citation

Moya Serrat, Àngela. “The Meaningful Skills that Develop an Artist: A journey from the classical music to the contemporary music world.” Master's thesis, Berklee College of Music, 2023. https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-contemporary-performance/263.