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Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
xiii, 146 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Derek Bailey's Improvisation, originally published in 1980, and here updated and extended with new interviews and photographs, is the first book to deal with the nature of improvisation in all its forms--Indian music, flamenco, baroque, organ music, rock, jazz, contemporary, and "free" music. By drawing on conversations with some of today's seminal improvisers--including John Zorn, Jerry Garcia, Steve Howe, Steve Lacy, Lionel Salter, Earle Brown,...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
ix, 208 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Free Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about where art in the widest sense comes from. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms. Free Play is directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the...
Author
Publisher
Comedy Council of Nicea, LLC
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual is a comprehensive guide to the UCB style of long-form comedy improvisation. Written by UCB founding members Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh, the manual covers everything from the basics of two-person scene work (with a heavy emphasis on finding "the game" of the scene), to the complexities of working within an ensemble to perform long-form structures, such as "The Harold" and "The...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Benjamin Franklin embarked for France in 1776, he well understood that he was taking the greatest gamble of his career. The colonies were without money, munitions, gunpowder, or common cause. Amid great secrecy, Franklin was dispatched to Paris to solicit aid. He was seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French. The eight-year posting serves not only as his most vital service to his country--it...
Author
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ava Andrews has a Technicolor interior with a gray shell. On the inside, she bubbles with ideas and plans. On the outside, everyone except her best friend, Zelia, thinks she doesn't talk or, worse, is stuck-up. What nobody knows is that Ava has invisible disabilities: anxiety and a heart condition.Ava hopes middle school will be a fresh start, but when Zelia moves across the country and Ava's Nana Linda pushes her to speak up about...
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 273 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young people and improvisational theater should be a natural combination-so why do we so rarely find this combo in today's classrooms? According to Elizabeth Swados-playwright, director, composer, poet, author of children's books and of an acclaimed family memoir-improvisational theater is the perfect creative outlet for junior-high and high-school students . . . if only they can be given the tools and the guidance to make the most of this natural...
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Most films rely on a script developed in pre-production. Yet beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the recent mumblecore movement, key independent filmmakers have broken with the traditional screenplay. Instead, they have turned to new approaches to scripting that allow for more complex characterization and shift the emphasis from the page to performance.
In Rewriting Indie Cinema, J. J. Murphy explores these alternative forms
18) Unscripted
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Zelda is chosen for an elite team at a prestigious improvisation camp, it is a big step toward achieving her dreams, but first she must survive her teammates' sexism and coach's cruelty.
Author
Series
Jamey Aebersold Jazz volume 1
Publisher
J. Aebersold Jazz
Pub. Date
[c1992]
Edition
Rev. 6th ed.
Physical Desc
103 p. of music ; 28 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
None
Author
Series
Publisher
Quarry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Through 46 daily exercises which make up a complete 6-week course, you will keep your artistic skills sharp and your imagination fertile by doing one drawing a day. Each spread in the book features a beautiful drawing by one of 8 professional illustrators, with a description and comments by the illustrator as well as a companion exercise. Each exercise includes suggestions for various mediums or mixed-media solutions, advice on how to approach and...
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