Lexicographical Neighbors of Improvisors
Literary usage of Improvisors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"... the improvisors of the songs and the "prose."2 But the actors regarded the
playwright as the chieftain of their tribe. The institution of the "retained" ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"•while the monotonous one-stringed variety is used by improvisors, and is called
the Poet's Kebab. Either this or the Persian equivalent was imported to ..."
3. The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn by Elizabeth Bisland, Lafcadio Hearn (1906)
"I sent you once a fragment by him upon those African improvisors, called Griots.
If the Tribune ever wants anything written about Loti, ..."
4. Marianne Moore: Vision Into Verse by Patricia C. Willis (1987)
"... the pianist known for his role in the revue Shuffle Along, are all jazz
musicians remarkable for their "unconformity" as great improvisors. ..."
5. Music and the Romantic Movement in France by Arthur Ware Locke (1920)
"They were both improvisors. Liszt thought of music as Lamartine thought of poetry,
as a vague, indefinite language, responsive as an Aeolian harp to all ..."
6. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"... boasted of her prowess to the slaves of neighboring estates; — the hands
saluted her when she passed, as if she were a mistress; and the improvisors of ..."
7. The Art of the Prado: A Survey of the Contents of the Gallery, Together with by Charles S. Ricketts (1907)
"... those other men of facile execution and vision (like Frans Hals, for instance)
are really ' improvisors ' contenting themselves with what comes to hand. ..."
8. Italy from 1494 to 1790 by Katharine Dorothea Ewart Vernon (1909)
"... madrigals, dance-music, and there were many talented performers, who were
often also skilled improvisors. But there was no organised art of music; ..."
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