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Improvisation

noun

A creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation).

An unplanned expedient. Synonym: temporary expedient.

A performance given extempore without planning or preparation. Synonyms: extemporisation, extemporization.

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"Improvisation" Quotes from Famous Books

... musicians as Wagner, Beethoven and Mozart," said he, "must possess in a tremendous degree the musical sense. The German knowledge of tone and its combinations is extraordinary; and their music in turn is as complex as their psychology and as simple as the improvisation ...

— Ashton-Kirk, Investigator • John T. McIntyre

... Arrow and the Song,' which came into my mind as I stood with my back to the fire, and glanced on to the paper with arrowy speed. Literally an improvisation." ...

— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester

... come in and was settling himself at the piano, in place of the musicians who had been performing. This was an especial treat not on the programme, and all that was needed in Mary's opinion to complete a heavenly evening. He played the same improvisation that had caught her up in its magic spell the day of her arrival, and she went to her room in the uplifted frame of mind which finds everything perfection. Even her strained relations with Ethelinda ...

— The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware • Annie Fellows Johnston

... composition is not the measured, deliberate working-out of some central musical theme as is the Sonata or sound-piece. The Toccata, in its early and pure form, possessed no decided subject, made such by repetition, but bore rather the form of a capricious Improvisation, or 'Impromptu.'" ("A Toccata of Galuppi's" by Mrs. Alexander Ireland, published ...

— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning

... cleaning up the debris; men who stopped in passing kept telling what a fine fellow young Bates was, what good timber he was sending in. Several of them told George frankly they thought that was to be his job. He was so ashamed of that, he began instant improvisation. ...

— A Daughter of the Land • Gene Stratton-Porter

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