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    1. “My musical self-portrait”: The phenomenology of musical improvisation

      by Révész, György; Bandi, Szabolcs; Vida, Dorian; Kemény, Viktor and Káplár, Mátyás

      Psychology Of Music.

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    2. Neural Substrates of Interactive Musical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of ‘Trading (...)

      by Rankin, Summer K.; Lopez-Gonzalez, Monica; Limb, Charles J.; Jiradejvong, Patpong and Donnay, Gabriel F.

      Plo S One, Volume 9, Issue 2.

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    3. Musical Improvisation in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Ritter Gluck

      by Cagle, Len

      Colloquia Germanica, Volume 57, Issue 3.

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    1. Musical improvisation : art, education, and society

      edited by Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl.

      Book

      This item is currently Available Music Library, ML193 .M87 2009 

    2. Musical improvisation : its nature and practice in music

      Derek Bailey.

      Book

      Check Holdings for this item's availability Music Library, ML430.5 .B34 1982 c.1

    3. The field of musical improvisation

      Marcel Cobussen.

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    1. Want to Dig Deeper? - Women Composers - LibGuides at Duke University

      Many, Many Women  is a compendium website with links to the individual websites of over 1200 women composers, improvisation artists, (...)

    2. Around the Libraries - Duke University Libraries Magazine

      In February, author Michael Kaler (University of Toronto Mississauga) visited campus to discuss his book Get Shown the Light: (...)

    3. Two Events to Launch a New Book Series: Studies in the Grateful Dead - Duke University Libraries Blo

      Location: Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room (Rubenstein Library 153)   Get Shown the Light: Improvisation and Transcendence in the (...)

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    1. Reel 0098, 1963 May

      Note 1: May 1963. Don Ellis group rehearsal. W. Eugene Smith adjusting volume on recorder. Names of participants include: Don, John, Barre (...)

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    1. Interaction and improvisation : group interplay in jazz performance

      by Robert Dean Hodson.

      Archival and manuscript material

      This item is currently Available Music Library, ML3506 .H63 2000 c.1

    2. The question of improvisation and head arrangement in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band

      Robert Bowman.

      Archival and manuscript material, Book

      This item is currently Available Music Library, ML3561.J3 B69 1982 

    3. Four improvisations : for piano solo

      by Jeremy Beck.

      Archival and manuscript material, Music score

      Check Holdings for this item's availability Library Service Center, A.M. B397I 1989 c.1

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