Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. While many improv shows aim to produce a spontaneous play or mimic stage or screen ...

Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...

This article presents a three-pronged strategy for teaching collective improvisation in the general music classroom through structured surround soundscapes. This strategy consists of developing ...

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Spoiler Alert is one of the improvisational comedy troupes on campus, specializing in long-form content and theater games. They perform free hour-long improvised plays every Tuesday at Tommy’s Place. ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

The new production at Venetian’s Summit Showroom promises to be unlike anything we’ve seen before on the Las Vegas Strip. But then again, “Freestyle Love Supreme” has proven to be a truly unique piece ...

Traditional Iranian music is not based on musical scores. Instead, traditional melody types are passed down orally. In his new book “Traditional Iranian music — Orality, physicality and improvisation, ...

Improvising music could help to improve older people's cognitive skills, such as learning and memory, according to research from the University of Sheffield and Western Sydney University. The study, ...