Lexic.us

Definition of Improvisation

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

2. Noun. An unplanned expedient.

3. Noun. A performance given extempore without planning or preparation.

Definition of Improvisation

1. n. The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.

Definition of Improvisation

1. Noun. The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ. ¹

2. Noun. That which is improvised; an impromptu. ¹

3. Noun. Musical technique, characteristic of blues music. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Improvisation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Improvisation

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Literary usage of Improvisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"B.—Of improvisation. improvisation is a composition which is instantaneous and leaves no ... But in improvisation, even more than in written composition, ..."

2. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"Cardinal Luigi d'Aragona presented the Pope with a valuable little organ.f Next to music, improvisation was the entertainment most appreciated by the ..."

3. The Beginnings of Poetry by Francis Barton Gummere (1901)
"CHAPTER VIII THE TRIUMPH OF THE ARTIST FROM this brief raid upon the territory of poetic style, we return to the fortunes of improvisation and its defeat at ..."

4. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"... or is it a pool, or is it a whirlpool twitching with memory? improvisation Wind: Why do you play that long beautiful adagio, that archaic air, ..."

5. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"... or is it a pool, or is it a whirlpool twitching with memory? improvisation Wind: Why do you play that long beautiful adagio, that archaic air, ..."

6. History of Spanish literature by George Ticknor, Ticknor, George, 1791-1871 (1849)
"... reputation ever had a genius so nearly related to that of an improvisator, or ever indulged his genius so freely in the spirit of improvisation. ..."

7. The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV., King by Charles Greville (1899)
"... van Artevelde'—Goodwood—Earl Bathurst's Death — Death of Mrs. Arbuthnot - Overtures to O'Connell—Irish Tithe Bill —Theodore Hook's improvisation—Lord ..."

8. The Popular Ballad by Francis Barton Gummere (1907)
"... is originally a product of the people under conditions of improvisation and choral dance, but ennobled and enriched on its traditional course in such a ..."

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