Improvisation As Art

Author : Stephen Nachmanovitch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 144067308X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Play written by Stephen Nachmanovitch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. 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. An international bestseller and beloved classic, Free Play is an inspiring and provocative book, directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It reveals how inspiration arises within us, how that inspiration may be blocked, derailed or obscured, and how finally it can be liberated—how we can be liberated—to speak or sing, write or paint, dance or play, with our own authentic voice. Stephen Nachmanovitch, a pioneer in free improvisation, integrates material from a wide variety of sources among the arts, sciences, and spiritual traditions of humanity, drawing on unusual quotes, amusing and illuminating anecdotes, and original metaphors. The whole enterprise of improvisation in life and art, of recovering free play and awakening creativity, is about being true to ourselves and our visions. Free Play brings us into direct, active contact with boundless creative energies that we may not even know we had.

Author : Charna Halpern
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art by Committee written by Charna Halpern and published by Meriwether Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book and DVD. A guide to advanced improvisation. This sequel to the best-selling improv book Truth in Comedy is designed to help improv performers move up to the more advanced levels of improvisation. Accompanying the book is a DVD featuring performers in action demonstrating the instructions and ideas covered in the book. The DVD includes performances by four popular improv groups: Upright Citizens Brigade, Beer Shark Mice, Armando Diaz Theatrical Experience, The Reckoning and assorted short clips with Peter Hulne. Also on the DVD are interviews with many celebrity improv artists including: Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Amy Poehler, Stephnie Weir, Tim Meadows, Andy Dick and Adam McKay.

Author : Stephen Nachmanovitch, PhD
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608686159
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Is written by Stephen Nachmanovitch, PhD and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A MASTERFUL BOOK ABOUT BREATHING LIFE INTO ART AND ART INTO LIFE "Stephen Nachmanovitch's The Art of Is is a philosophical meditation on living, living fully, living in the present. To the author, an improvisation is a co-creation that arises out of listening and mutual attentiveness, out of a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity. It is a product of the nervous system, bigger than the brain and bigger than the body; it is a once-in-a-lifetime encounter, unprecedented and unrepeatable. Drawing from the wisdom of the ages, The Art of Is not only gives the reader an inside view of the states of mind that give rise to improvisation, it is also a celebration of the power of the human spirit, which — when exercised with love, immense patience, and discipline — is an antidote to hate." — Yo-Yo Ma, cellist

Author : Edgar Landgraf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441199322
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improvisation as Art written by Edgar Landgraf and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation as Art traces how modernity's emphasis on inventiveness has changed the meaning of improvisation; and how the ideals and laws that led improvisation to be banned from "high art" in the eighteenth century simultaneously enabled the inventive reintegration of improvisation into modernism. After an in-depth exploration of contemporary theoretical contentions surrounding improvisation, Landgraf examines how the new emphasis on inventiveness affects the understanding of improvisation in the emerging aesthetic and anthropological discourses of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He first focuses on accounts of improvisational performances by Moritz, Goethe, and Fernow and reads them alongside the aesthetics of autonomy as it develops at the same time. In its second half, the book investigates how the problem of "planning" art receives a different treatment in German Romanticism. The final chapter focuses on the writings of Heinrich von Kleist where improvisation presents a central aesthetic principle. Kleist's figurations of improvisation recognize the anthropological predicament of the self in modern society and the social constraints that invite and often force individuals to improvise.

Author : Edgar Landgraf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 162892957X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improvisation as Art written by Edgar Landgraf and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation as Art traces how modernity's emphasis on inventiveness has changed the meaning of improvisation; and how the ideals and laws that led improvisation to be banned from "high art" in the eighteenth century simultaneously enabled the inventive reintegration of improvisation into modernism. After an in-depth exploration of contemporary theoretical contentions surrounding improvisation, Landgraf examines how the new emphasis on inventiveness affects the understanding of improvisation in the emerging aesthetic and anthropological discourses of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He first focuses on accounts of improvisational performances by Moritz, Goethe, and Fernow and reads them alongside the aesthetics of autonomy as it develops at the same time. In its second half, the book investigates how the problem of "planning" art receives a different treatment in German Romanticism. The final chapter focuses on the writings of Heinrich von Kleist where improvisation presents a central aesthetic principle. Kleist's figurations of improvisation recognize the anthropological predicament of the self in modern society and the social constraints that invite and often force individuals to improvise.

Author : Gerre Hancock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780193858817
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improvising written by Gerre Hancock and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerre Hancock has long been renowned for his extraordinary improvisations, and has for many years taught the art of improvisation at classes and workshops across the United States. Now he has codified and organized his teaching into a book which carries the organist from the scale through thefugue, covering on the way interludes, hymns, hymn preludes, sonata form, canon, and more. Written in an informal style and illustrated with musical examples and exercises, this book opens wide the door to musical and technical skill.

Author : T. Carl Whitmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781021177407
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art Of Improvisation written by T. Carl Whitmer and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Wasson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544557204
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improv Nation written by Sam Wasson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping yet intimate--and often hilarious--history of a uniquely American art form that has never been more popular

Author : Jean-Michel Pilc
Publisher : Balquhidder Music/Glen Lyon
ISBN 13 : 0985903945
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's About Music written by Jean-Michel Pilc and published by Balquhidder Music/Glen Lyon. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Michel Pilc, jazz pianist and faculty member of Steinhardt School, New York University, has written a remarkable book about the artistic and creative process in the arts. The conversational style well suits the wide ranging topic which draws examples from art and music both classical and jazz. A beautifully expressed work on a subject otherwise impossible to write about. Hailed by musicians around the world as enlightened and inspirational.

Author : Gabriel Solis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252076540
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Improvisation written by Gabriel Solis and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A musical practice used for centuries the world over, improvisation too often has been neglected by scholars who dismiss it as either technically undissectible or inexplicably mysterious. At different times and in different cultures, performing music that is not "precomposed" has constituted an artful expression of the performer's individuality (the Baroque); a wild, unthinking form of expression (jazz antagonists); and the best method to train inexperienced musicians to use their instruments (the Middle East). This wide-ranging collection of essays considers musical improvisation from a variety of approaches, including ethnomusicology, education, performance, historical musicology, and music theory. Laying the groundwork for even further research into improvisation, the contributors of this volume delve into topics as diverse as the creative minds of Mozart and Beethoven, the place of improvised musics in Western and non-Western societies, and the development of jazz as a musical and cultural phenomenon.