Research Catalog

  • The practice of musical improvisation : dialogues with contemporary musical improvisers / edited by Bertrand Denzler and Jean-Luc Guionnet.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
    • 2020-2020
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 20-147Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Improvisations to music [sound recording] / Mike Nichols & Elaine May.

    • Audio
    • Chicago : Mercury, [1958]
    • 1958
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio LS-Off-site
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  • Improvisations to music [sound recording] / Mike Nichols & Elaine May.

    • Audio
    • Chicago : Mercury, [1958]
    • 1958
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LRXS 306Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The improvisation of musical dialogue : a phenomenology of music / Bruce Ellis Benson.

    • Text
    • Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2002067419.html
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 03-116Offsite
  • Free to be musical : group improvisation in music / Lee Higgins and Patricia Shehan Campbell.

    • Text
    • Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, c2010.
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 11-199Offsite
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  • Improvisation: Dance improvisation around musical forms [videorecording]

    • Moving image
    • 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIC 9-3060Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Improvising : my life in music / Larry Coryell.

    • Text
    • New York : Backbeat , c2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML419.C679 C67 2007Off-site
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  • Improvisation in music and philosophical hermeneutics / Sam McAuliffe.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
    • 2023-2023
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 23-283Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Live electronic music improvised.

    • Audio
    • [Place of publication not identified] : Mainstream Records, [1969?]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio LS4415Off-site
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  • The social meaning of musical improvisation / by Lawrence Sebastian Lanahan, III.

    • Text
    • 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 04-235Offsite
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  • Improvisation, dance and music.

    • Text
    • 1987
  • Live electronic music improvised [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : Mainstream Records, [1969?]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 33300 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Musical improvisation in the Baroque era / edited by Fulvia Morabito.

    • Text
    • Turnhout : Brepols, MMXIX [2019]
    • 2019-2019
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMF 19-165Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • The Music Improvisation Company [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York : ECM, p1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 6516 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Music & graphic [sound recording] : organ improvisations.

    • Audio
    • Mainz, W. Germany : Wergo, 1988.
    • 1988-1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio CD- 1192Off-site
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  • Improvisation in music and philosophical hermeneutics / Sam McAuliffe.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
    • 2023-2023
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML3800 .M33 2023Off-site
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  • Making music : improvisation for organists / Jan Overduin.

    • Text
    • New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMF 00-1236Offsite
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  • BoB [microform] : an improvisational music companion / Belinda Thom.

    • Text
    • c2001.
    • 2001
  • The tradition of improvisation in Arab music / Samha Elkholy.

    • Text
    • [s.l. : s.n., 1978]
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JCX L-44Offsite
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  • Music & graphic [electronic resource] : organ improvisations / Zsigmond Szathmáry, Orgel.

    • Audio
    • Mainz : Wergo, p1988.
    • 1988-1984
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://nypl.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=WER60119-50
  • Hothouse [videorecording] : music and dance improvisations / presented by P.S. 122.

    • Moving image
    • 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIC 9-4550Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Improvising : my life in music / Larry Coryell.

    • Text
    • New York : Backbeat, c2007.
    • 2007
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *LDC 42196 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 07-744Offsite
  • Improvisation : music from the inside out / Mildred Portney Chase.

    • Text
    • Berkeley : Creative Arts Book Co., 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MT68 .C525 1988Off-site
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  • Improvisation and music education : beyond the classroom / edited by Ajay Heble and Mark Laver.

    • Text
    • New York ; London : Routledge, 2016.
    • 2016-2016
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 16-352Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Improvisation : music from the inside out / Mildred Portney Chase.

    • Text
    • Berkeley : Creative Arts Book Co., 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 92-48Offsite
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  • [Pauline Koner improvises to music by Bach] [videorecording].

    • Moving image
    • 1991.
    • 1991-714
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIA 4-8663Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Collaborations [videorecording] : a concert of improvised music and dance / presented by Improvisational Arts Ensembles, Inc.

    • Moving image
    • 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIA 4-5791Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Music for ballet practice [sound recording] : [improvisations at the piano / [by Catherine Maye].

    • Audio
    • New York City : CMS, [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 53576 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Maximal music [sound recording] : improvisations for violin and piano / Liana Issakadze, violin ; Franz Hummel, piano.

    • Audio
    • [Germany] : Arte Nova, [1997], p1996.
    • 1997-1996
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 36685 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Audio *LDC 36685 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Primitive music, folk art, and improvisation.

    • Text
    • 1944
  • A phenomenological investigation of improvisation in music and dance [microform] / Louise Mathieu.

    • Text
    • c1984.
    • 1985-1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *XMD-580Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Finding the raga : an improvisation on Indian music / Amit Chaudhuri.

    • Text
    • New York : New York Review Books, [2021]
    • 2021-2021
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 21-90Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Method on how to improvise soul music.

    • Text
    • [Teaneck, N. J.] Alnur Music [c1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNG 73-49Offsite
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  • Sudden music : improvisation, sound, nature / David Rothenberg.

    • Text
    • Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2002]
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML3877 .R68 2002gOff-site
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  • Musical improvisation : art, education, and society / edited by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl.

    • Text
    • Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
    • 2009
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 09-862Offsite
    Not available - In use until 2024-01-26 - Please for assistance.
  • Improvisation : its nature and practice in music / Derek Bailey.

    • Text
    • London : British Library National Sound Archive, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 92-445Offsite
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  • Method on how to improvise soul music / by Yusef Lateef.

    • Text
    • Amherst, MA : Fana Publishing, c1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNG 87-238Offsite
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  • Improvisation : its nature and practice in music / Derek Bailey.

    • Text
    • Ashbourne [Eng.] : Moorland Pub. in association with Incus Records, c1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 82-23Offsite
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  • Making musical things : improvised instruments / Ann Wiseman.

    • Text
    • New York : Scribner, c1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMF 81-385Offsite
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  • Sudden music : improvisation, sound, nature / David Rothenberg.

    • Text
    • Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2002.
    • 2002
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *LDC 25863 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 02-301 [Text]Offsite

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  • Collaborations [videorecording] : a concert of improvised music and dance / presented by Improvisational Arts Ensembles, Inc.

    • Moving image
    • 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIA 4-5789Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Collaborations [videorecording] : a concert of improvised music and dance / presented by Improvisational Arts Ensembles, Inc.

    • Moving image
    • 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIA 4-5790Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Finding the raga : an improvisation on Indian music / Amit Chaudhuri.

    • Text
    • New York : New York Review Books, [2021]
    • 2021-2021
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML3877 .C557 2021Off-site
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  • Improvising improvisation : from out of philosophy, music, dance, and literature / Gary Peters.

    • Text
    • Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2017]
    • 2017
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 17-6832Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Plural possibilities of improvisation in music education : an ecological perspective on choral improvisation and wellbeing / Eeva Siljamäki.

    • Text
    • Helsinki : UniArts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy, [2021]
    • 2021
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMF 23-146Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Improvisation / Ernest Thomas Ferrand.

    • Notated music
    • Laaber, Germany : Laaber-Verlag, c2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JMF 06-1732Offsite
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  • Improvisational [electronic resource].

    • Audio
    • Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services/Caprice, [2010]
    • 2010
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://nypl.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=CAP21786
  • Improvisations [sound recording] / Ravi Shankar.

    • Audio
    • Los Angeles : World Pacific, [1962]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 49720 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Improvisations / Jean-Baptiste Dupont.

    • Audio
    • [Place of publication not identified] : Editions Hortus, [2019]
    • 2019-2019
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://nypl.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=HORTUS174
  • Improvisations [electronic resource].

    • Audio
    • New York, NY : Angel Records, p1999.
    • 1999-1962
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://nypl.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=0724356704954

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