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n. - A performance given without planning or preparation.

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  • To the latter Felix exhibited his powers by an extemporisation on Bach's motets, which called forth the musician's astonished praise.
  • Ferdinand Ries, another of his pupils, has declared that no other artist that he ever heard could approach Beethoven in extemporisation.
  • Gong's 12 minutes of prog-jazz extemporisation doesn't even proffer a mythology, just a fractured glimpse into somebody's psychedelic fantasy.
  • The capacity for learning music had begun very early, but his wonderful gift of extemporisation, which gave his genius wings as well as voice, had only lately revealed...
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