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improvisation|ɪmprɒvɪˈzeɪʃən, ˌɪmprəvaɪˈzeɪʃən|
[n. of action from improvise, improvisate: cf. mod.F. improvisation.]
1. a. The action of improvising or composing extempore; also concr. verse, music, etc. so improvised.
1786Colman Prose Sev. Occas. (1787) III. 166 Poor Tuscan-like Improvisation. 1811Scott Don Roderick Introd. ix. note, The flexibility of the Italian and Spanish languages..renders these countries distinguished for the talent of improvisation. 1834Greville Mem. 13 Aug. (1875) III. xxiv. 119 After dinner he [Theodore Hook] displayed his extraordinary talent of improvisation. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. xx, This speech..was not indeed entirely an improvisation, but had taken shape in inward colloquy. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 214 We can not expect in a modern poet the thrush-like improvisation..that charm[s] us in our Elizabethan drama.
b. spec. of Old English verse.
1928W. W. Lawrence Beowulf & Epic Trad. 3 We must agree to judge Beowulf,..not as the improvisation of an untutored minstrel, but as a well-considered work of art. 1960English Studies XLI. 5 The use of traditional diction is one thing; improvisation is something else again. The two need not go together and in Beowulf they most emphatically do not.
2. The production or execution of anything off-hand; any work or structure produced on the spur of the moment.
1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. xi. 214 The terra-cotta decorations..have all the spontaneity of improvisation. 1884S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 231 The Crystal Palace Opera-House, an improvisation on Dominion Square [Montreal]. |