Definition of "improvisation" []

• The act or art of improvising. (noun)
• Something improvised, especially a musical passage or a dramatic skit. (noun)

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• "EK: Well, I think that, for me, I have a lot of issues with the term "improvisation.""
• "Sometimes of an evening he would perform upon the piano, indulging in a series of broken chords which he called improvisation, and upon these occasions he felt that he was a kind and thoughtful master when he set the drawing-room door open so that the servants might hear; and as his servants thought so too it was all eminently satisfactory."
• "But I had always been interested in improvisation, even back when I went to music school at Indiana University."