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Jeffrey, August 15, 2006 (view all comments by Jeffrey)
This is the Mother of all improv/creativity books. I have underlined and transferred so many passages of it to my personal collection of quotations that I might as well just copy the whole book. The author is both engaging and informative in discussing the mysteries of creation, imagination, improvisation, and intuition in art and life. A life-changer. Run, don?t walk to get your copy.

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Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. When people as me how to improvise, only a little of what I can say is about music. The real story is about spontaneous expression, and it is therefore a spiritual and a psychological story rather than a story about technique of one art form or another.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780874776317

Author:

Nachmanovitch, Stephen

Publisher:

Jeremy P. Tarcher

Location:

New York

Subject:

General

Subject:

Techniques

Subject:

Art

Subject:

Personal & Practical Guides

Subject:

Creation

Subject:

Cognitive Psychology

Subject:

Technique

Subject:

Creation (literary, artistic, etc.)

Subject:

Improvisation (music)

Subject:

Improvisation.

Subject:

Inspirational

Series Volume:

v. 2

Publication Date:

May 1991

Binding:

Paperback

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

224

Dimensions:

8.10x5.16x.60 in. .41 lbs.