Verb (used without object) : He can extemporize on any of a number of subjects. From Dictionary.com.
But in the middle of its composition he began to suffer from eye trouble and, although he evidently still managed to play his organ concertos—they had in any case always relied heavily on extemporization—he was totally blind by January 1753. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Very soon it collapsed and the process of quasi-extemporization began again, to culminate in a new fugue which often gave the whole work a happy but deceptive suggestion of organic unity by being founded on an ingenious variation of the subject of the first fugue. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
“And,” Forrest concluded, relapsing into his natural voice and enunciation, having reached the limit of extemporization, — and if you think old, sweet, blue-eyed Solomon has anything on me in singing the Song of Songs, just put your names down for the subscription edition of my. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER X] Reference
At Mannes College and the Curtis Institute, improvisation for classical musicians is taught by Israeli pianist and composer Noam Sivan, who incorporates improvisations into his concerts, for instance following a performance of Bach's "Goldberg Variations" with his own extemporization on the theme. From Wordnik.com. [Classical Musicians Learn to Improvise] Reference
Flushing slightly in realization of his lapse, Terry had sprung astraddle the corner of the billiard table, where, absurdly solemn, he declaimed tragically, combing the classics for sepulchral passages, plunging the intent listeners into deepest melancholy but concluding with a droll extemporization that swept them from verge of tears to convulsed mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
With his variety of proportion and flow he has no need to break off the fugue like earlier composers: but all the old devices by which the division into sections was managed are turned to account by him, and almost every toccata has its own scheme of contrasted movements, always based on the old natural idea of the growth of an organized music from a chaos of extemporization. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
My hunger I could never satisfy with any amount of composition or extemporization of my own. From Wordnik.com. [Weighed and Wanting] Reference
Thereupon he launches out on a bewildering extemporization, counting up the votes at his disposal, the cantons which will rise at his summons. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
In fact, as any one can see, a conversation between two persons must necessarily imply a certain amount of extemporization on the part of both. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Then, as if the Christmas frost had melted, these grateful exclamations made warmth at once in both races, and encouraged the orator in his extemporization. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Chesapeake] Reference
In these latter portions, if the hypothesis of extemporization were correct, the words of course would be different, but the substance might remain untouched. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology] Reference
Cornelius was too much offended and self-occupied to be amused, but both Mrs. Raymount and Vavasor laughed, the latter recognizing in Hester's extemporization a vein similar to his own. From Wordnik.com. [Weighed and Wanting] Reference
Weber, "did Vogler in his extemporization drink more deeply at the source of all beauty, than when before his three dear boys, as he liked to call us, he drew from the organ angelic voices and word of thunder.". From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference
His appeal at an August rally in Tbilisi for setting up an anti-Russia coalition had to be withdrawn as well, that time by Poland's own foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, who announced that President Kaczynski's speech had been an "extemporization.". From Wordnik.com. [Russia Blog] Reference
Neither Benway nor the County Clerk are willing to be distracted or interrupted in the flow of their indefatigable soliloquies, their endless extemporization - if it's better to die in silence than to start to say something and get cut off, then there's still the alternative of never shutting up in this life and continuing to transmit from the afterlife, like the voices of the dead in the atrophied preface. From Wordnik.com. [Comments for RealityStudio] Reference
A conversation between two persons must necessarily imply a certain amount of extemporization on the part of both. From Wordnik.com. [John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 2] Reference
"And," Forrest concluded, relapsing into his natural voice and enunciation, having reached the limit of extemporization, -- "and if you think old, sweet, blue-eyed Solomon has anything on me in singing the. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference
“And,” Forrest concluded, relapsing into his natural voice and enunciation, having reached the limit of extemporization, — and if you think old, sweet, blue-eyed Solomon has anything on me in singing the Song of Songs, just put your names down for the subscription edition of my Song of Songs.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London] Reference
Page 290 trust to extemporization. From Wordnik.com. [Marse Henry : an autobiography,] Reference
"None, save the agony of extemporization.". From Wordnik.com. [Half a Rogue] Reference
It would not do to trust to extemporization. From Wordnik.com. [Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography] Reference
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