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- noun Plural form of
improvisation .
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Examples
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Rose's dishes are all what he calls improvisations on the classics.
Flora Lazar: Hardest Reservation in Paris: New Trier Grad's Restaurant 2010
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Rose's dishes are all what he calls improvisations on the classics.
Flora Lazar: Hardest Reservation in Paris: New Trier Grad's Restaurant 2009
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Rose's dishes are all what he calls improvisations on the classics.
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Because the problem with improvisations is that, A, people tend to play within their comfort zone, so - the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
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Laughed reading your comment about "improvisations"--I took piano for 11 years, but having lived for 8 years, sans piano, I've reached the playing nadir where the simplest Mozart piece sounds like weird atonal dissonance.
Fixing a Hole Bruce Schauble 2007
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His improvisations were a great delight to me, and, finding me so appreciative, he composed a lovely set of waltzes, "_The Hospital Waltzes_," which were dedicated to me, but never published, only exquisitely written out on pieces of wall-paper by the composer.
Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers
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His improvisations were a great delight to me, and, finding me so appreciative, he composed a lovely set of waltzes, “The Hospital Waltzes,” which were dedicated to me, but never published, only exquisitely written out on pieces of wall-paper by the composer.
Memories Beers, Fannie A. 1888
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Scriabin's color-symphonies, Kandinsky's "improvisations," and all manner of elaborate invention - not to mention neo-spiritual movements such as Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy - spurred experiment in cross-media artwork throughout the western world about a hundred years ago.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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Scriabin's color-symphonies, Kandinsky's "improvisations," and all manner of elaborate invention - not to mention neo-spiritual movements such as Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy - spurred experiment in cross-media artwork throughout the western world about a hundred years ago.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Moving Pictures, Frozen Music Peter Frank 2010
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Everything, even the 'improvisations' were scripted.
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