extemporization
extemporisation BrE

"As I saw the series of stories, it was like an extemporization in jazz.

His slow movements are thought to show valuable insight into early 18th-century practices of ornamentation and extemporization.

But play, pure extemporization, is endless, at least when the player is Rosalind (and Shakespeare).

Éloge," he explains, was made as an extemporization.

Improvisation, also called extemporization, can lead to the discovery of new ways to act, new patterns of thought and practices, or new structures.

Lawson flatly refuses to take part in any such scheme, giving the excuse that Hornsby is disobeying their orders with this extemporization.

Some kinds of oral poetry depend on a certain degree of extemporization, including the couplet, the Gstanzl, and the limerick.

The earliest in the series, the Queen Anne drawing room and the Chippendale library, typify the creative extemporization that led to the whole suite.

Extemporization, both in the form of introductions to pieces, and links between pieces, continued to be a feature of keyboard concertising until the early 20th-century.

Mr. Mackey and Mr. Sherry have collaborated several times in the last 18 months, and in that time, improvisatory works have given way to composed works in which there is room for extemporization.

Using a term coined by Steve Coleman, they called these ideas "M-Base-concept" (short for "macro-basic array of structured extemporization") and critics have used this term to categorize this scene's music as a jazz style.

Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.

The script is Carter and company's usual hodepodge of crackpot theory and weird extemporization, but it's a huge relief to shift away, even for a week, from the grind of heavy-handed murder parties that define so much of the series".

(Chinen) JEAN-MICHEL PILC TRIO (Wednesday) Jean-Michel Pilc's piano playing has a joyous bounce no matter how dark or furious the extemporization.

As the Danish scholar Per Nykrog has observed, however, the corpus of fabliaux seems to be constituted of a certain stock of recognized tales rather than being the product of widespread and prolific extemporization as Bédier was inclined to believe.

The show kept Cooper in the public eye, and the "Hidden Melody" round, a regular feature of the show in which he improvised in the style of a composer and cloaked a well-known tune in his elaborate extemporization, served as a vehicle for his great pianistic talent.

There was no extemporisation; it was always in the same format.

This is the essential condition for all forms of extemporisation, as exemplified in jazz music.

What various advantages would or might have resulted from a prolongation of such an extemporisation?

Contemporaries held a high opinion of his organ playing and ability at fugal extemporisation.

He turned his attention to the troops, who under the quick thinking extemporisation of their Sergeant were once again in some semblance of order.

The musician excelled most notably in extemporisation and accompaniment.

The Doors were interested in The Living Theatre, in performance, in extemporisation.

Hypotheses seem to be effortlessly improvised out of thin air, the resulting theory giving the distinct impression of being a rather facile extemporisation.

Nevertheless, extemporisation by a competent player at the end of a hymn can be thrilling, as it can during a procession before or during the service.

He gained the FRCO diploma in 1985 and was awarded the prize for extemporisation.

Gladys Puttick Memorial Prize for Extemporisation (1994 & 1998)

Avadhanam performance of India requires high level of extemporisation to create hundreds of poems in different styles in front of large audience.

Prof. Li has also published three albums on improvisation and extemporisation on the qin, which uses titles and poems of Tang poetry, Song verse and Yuan drama as themes.

I wish I hadn't seen the reformed Velvet Underground, whose show featured Lou Reed doing a lot of vocal extemporisation of the "wooh yeah mama" variety while sporting a haircut that made him look not like an icon of unimpeachable countercultural cool, but Ian McShane in Lovejoy.