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Practice Listening: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers
ID: #33236
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Improvisation
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Fine. Listen to a discussion in a music history class. The class is studying improvisation. Every jazz player knows what he or she means by improvisation. And all writers know what they mean by improvisation. The result, of course, is a lot of confusion and disagreement about what improvisation really is. We hear about the different types of improvisation, free improvisation, and controlled improvisation and collective improvisation. What does it all mean? Yes, mary. My dictionary says improvise means to compose a recite without preparation. That's true, but it tells us only part of the story. As we know, musicians learn how to play their instruments before they could improvise. So they do have some preparation. Yes, arthur. Maybe a better definition is composing and performing at the same time. That tells us another part of the story. Let's try to understand it more by looking at history.
Why is improvisation difficult to define?
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