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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. Improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. [1] The origin of the word itself is in the Latin "improvisus", which literally means unforeseen. Improvisation in the performing arts is a

  4. Improvisational theatre - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Jazz improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Jazz improvisation by Col Loughnan (tenor saxophone) at the Manly Jazz Festival with the Sydney Jazz Legends. Loughnan was accompanied by Steve Brien (guitar), Craig Scott (double bass, face obscured), and Ron Lemke (drums). Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz ...

  6. Improvisation in music therapy - Wikipedia

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    In music therapy improvisation is defined as a process where the client and therapist relate to each other. The client makes up music, musical improvisation , while singing or playing, extemporaneously creating a melody , rhythm , song , or instrumental piece.

  7. 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.

  8. Zac Efron Says Dance for High School Musical 2’s ‘Bet on It ...

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    You might want to sit down, Wildcats — one of the most memorable dances from High School Musical 2 was almost entirely improvised. Zac Efron, who starred as Troy Bolton in all three of the ...

  9. Free jazz - Wikipedia

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    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.