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Hey! I've done longform musical improv. The building block of it is the scene-to-song. Basically, learn how to push your emotion or character deal into a song moment. If you watch a lot of musicals, you'll start to see what I mean. After that, you can work on song structure (verse-chorus-verse, tagline, etc.) and then string the scenes together however you'd like (as a Harold, a montage, a single long monoscene, or narrative).
To that end, I recommend:
• Instant Songwriting
• The Improv Comedy Musician (For your accompaniest mostly)
• Musical Direction for Improv (The author has another older book but it seems to be out of print. I think this one's an updated/expanded/revised version of that book though.)
You might want to check out the AMA by Laura Hall (from " Whose Line Is it Anyway"). All her answers are here: http://www.reddit.com/user/Laura_Hall.
There, she only answers a few questions about how she got into it, but she does link to this book (also look at the 'frequently bought together' books, and linked to this blog of hers.
https://www.amazon.com/Musical-Direction-Improv-Sketch-Comedy/dp/0974742740/