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n. - A performance given extempore without planning or preparation; An unplanned expedient; A creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)..

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  • More power to him: improvisation is the soul of creativity.
  • 'Cause the other big problem with improvisation is that everybody plays all the time unless told not to.
  • But I had always been interested in improvisation, even back when I went to music school at Indiana University.
  • So that was a really good example of the mixture of script and brilliant improvisation.
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