improvisation

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The author is assuredly far nearer the mark in another place when he speaks of "_that immense improvisation which is the French Revolution" (ii.

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  1. noun The act or art of improvising.
  2. noun Something improvised, especially a musical passage or a dramatic skit.

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  • They take pride in playing the songs exactly as they're written down; they're almost anti-improvisation, which is interesting.
  • The author is assuredly far nearer the mark in another place when he speaks of "_that immense improvisation which is the French Revolution" (ii. —  Studies in Literature
  • They have all the spontaneity of improvisation, the seductive melody of unpremeditated music. —  Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
  • Kitchener's great improvisation is already bearing fruit, and the New —  Mr. Punch's History of the Great War
  • Although these pieces are the height of improvisation, they never lose their melodic and rhythmic sensibility. —  Mininova
 

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  1. = French improvisation = Spanish improvisacion = Portuguese improvisação, from New Latin *improvisatio(n-), from improvisare, improvise: see improvise.
 

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/ɪmprɑvɪˈseɪʃən/
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