0 (of speech or music) done or performed without having been planned exactly, making something up as it is being performed: --
In improvisatory traditions, the patterned movements of the performer may contribute to the generation of musical material itself.
In her hands, the five volumes sounded fresh and improvisatory as well as profoundly logical.
Its form is improvisatory, its subjects are other people's books, but its thematic unity is the product of a creative and refined critical intelligence.
The improvisatory vocalizing, typical of plainsong, is inescapably associated with woman, although this contradicts historical traces of the male-only plainsong practice of earlier centuries.
In a manner appropriate to popular (as opposed to neoclassical) comedy, the improvisatory vitality of performance subverts the literary predictability of conventional mimesis.
This paper presents an introduction to the field of live coding, of real-time scripting during laptop music performance, and the improvisatory power and risks involved.
There is usually a theatrical dimension in the concert works, while the fully notated scores are frequently imbued with an improvisatory quality.
Non-notated and improvisatory styles of music are side-lined, even if students can create imaginative and meaningful art works in this way.
