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performing arts or entertainment; for example, music,
theatre and dance. To "
extemporize" or "ad lib" is
basically the same as improvising.
Colloquial terms such...
- Armstrong's
solos went well
beyond the theme-improvisation
concept and
extemporized on chords,
rather than melodies.
According to Schuller, by comparison...
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Musical improvisation (also
known as
musical extemporization) is the
creative activity of
immediate ("in the moment")
musical composition,
which combines...
- His fun-loving,
foolhardy incongruity covers a
brilliant mind
always extemporizing and re-evaluating. As such, he has been
responsible for
heists no right-minded...
- are
probably no
longer so rare; but what this
little man can do in
extemporizing and
playing at
sight borders the miraculous, and I
could not have believed...
-
representing that
saint wrestling with Satan. One of his works, Grape-picker
Extemporizing, made in 1839,
shows a man
playing a mandolin. The
sculpture shows the...
- warring, is the
practice of
competitors attacking each other's
efforts at
extemporizing in the
course of
their own performance. It is not an
essential part...
- type scenes, ring
composition and repetition.
These habits aid the
extemporizing bard and are
characteristic of oral poetry. For instance, the main words...
- Borlik, Todd
Andrew (2011), "'More than Art':
Clockwork Automata, the
Extemporizing Actor, and the
Brazen Head in
Friar Bacon and
Friar Bun****", The Automaton...
- out
seventeen short stories in
quick succession.
Although a
dazzling extemporizer, Fitzgerald's
short stories were
criticized for
lacking both thematic...
