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Sometimes musical ideas in improvisation are spontaneous, but may be based on chord changes in classical music [1] and many other kinds of music. One definition is a "performance given extempore without planning or preparation". [2]
Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created spontaneously by the performers.
Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of improvisation can apply to many different faculties across all artistic, scientific, physical, cognitive, academic, and non-academic disciplines; see Applied improvisation.
[8] [9] Edward W. Sarath has proposed jazz improvisation as a model for change in music, education, and society. [10] Jazz improvisation can also be seen as a model for human interactions. Jazz improvisation presents an image or representation of the ways in which humans engage with and interact with one another and the world around them ...
[3] [4] The earliest written record of the word is in a 1912 article in the Los Angeles Times in which a minor league baseball pitcher described a pitch which he called a 'jazz ball' "because it wobbles and you simply can't do anything with it". [3] [4] The use of the word in a musical context was documented as early as 1915 in the Chicago ...
Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, [1] is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes.
Ex. 1 A figured bass line, and a realization for theorbo (Thomas Mace, 1676) [3] (play) Audio simulation Ex. 2 Four realizations of a short figured bass (1753) [4] (play) Ex. 3 A figured bass, and a guitar realization (Nicola Matteis, 1682) [5] (play) Ex. 4 Bach MS: the keyboard part is thought to be an extremely rare transcription of a live ...
The term can refer to both a technique—employed by any musician in any genre—and as a recognizable genre of experimental music in its own right. Free improvisation, as a genre of music, developed primarily in the U.K. as well as the U.S. and Europe in the mid to late 1960s, largely as an outgrowth of free jazz and contemporary classical music.