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  2. Musical improvisation - Wikipedia

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    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. [1]

  3. Improvisational theatre - Wikipedia

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    From the 1990s onwards a growing number of European Improv groups have been set up specifically to explore the possibilities offered by the use of the abstract in improvised performance, including dance, movement, sound, music, mask work, lighting, and so on. These groups are not especially interested in comedy, either as a technique or as an ...

  4. Improvisation - Wikipedia

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    This cognitive inhibition is similar to the inhibition described by Limb for musical improvisation, which can be found in the music section above. Contact improvisation: a form developed in 1973, that is now practiced around the world. Contact improvisation originated from the movement studies of Steve Paxton in the 1970s and developed through ...

  5. Jazz improvisation - Wikipedia

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    [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 ...

  6. Jam session - Wikipedia

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    Bluegrass music jam at the Delafield Fish Hatchery in Delafield, Wisconsin on February 8, 2009.. A jam session is a relatively informal musical event, process, or activity where musicians, typically instrumentalists, play improvised solos and vamp over tunes, drones, songs, and chord progressions.

  7. Intuitive music - Wikipedia

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    Intuitive music is a form of musical improvisation based on instant creation in which fixed principles or rules may or may not have been given. It is a type of process music where instead of a traditional music score, verbal or graphic instructions and ideas are provided to the performers. [ 1 ]

  8. Jazz fusion - Wikipedia

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    Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion [4]) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock began to be used by jazz musicians ...

  9. Realization (figured bass) - Wikipedia

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    Realization is the art of creating music, typically an accompaniment, from a figured bass, whether by improvisation in real time, or as a detained exercise in writing. It is most commonly associated with Baroque music .