The performances gain from free expression and improvisation and Soderbergh's habit of shooting in single takes. |
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The next evening, in the company of a local trio, he served up the perfect blend of lyricism, improvisation, swing and team work. |
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She is playing to a loyal audience here, but shows a good deal of humour and improvisation in her performance. |
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But I liked the fact that its writer and director, Debbie Isitt, is very young, with lots of mad ideas and was up for improvisation. |
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If improvisation exploits accident, the accident itself is often the result of luck. |
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I wish all those kids were doing some kind of composition and improvisation as well, leavening their virtuosity with creativity. |
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There was much improvisation in the weeks preceding the implementation of the plan, and little time to practise the landings. |
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The actors meet and put themselves through months of improvisation and rehearsals before a scene is filmed. |
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There's an obvious kinship between skateboarding and contact improvisation. |
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A master of improvisation, here he is, winging it at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. |
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His improvisation and organization helped the British to hold out for 217 days against overwhelming forces. |
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Moran intersperses breathtaking flights of improvisation with vamps, ostinatos, and stride techniques. |
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His vocal work was enormously impressive, veering worryingly towards perfection, something which improvisation never sought, expected or needed. |
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I love improvisation and wildness of feeling and imagination, but it all has to find a container for itself. Otherwise the energy leaks out. |
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This nomadic improvisation troupe takes its ad-lib comedy to movie theatres and bars. |
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He's back with another improvisation show that combines ad-lib humor with animation. |
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The set is a loose, three-way group improvisation in which the leader plays an entirely collaborative part. |
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The Zen-derived notion of spontaneous improvisation became the essence of bebop, the post-war jazz movement. |
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It feels like I'm engaging with that process again, but starting from a different place, from songs and not that much improvisation. |
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Each was also accompanied by live musical improvisation from cellist, Anne Bourne. |
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The serial presentation enhanced the illusion of spontaneity and improvisation. |
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I almost always compose using material originally produced through improvisation. |
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The show wavers between drama, sketch comedy, and sheer improvisation, but it would be best to simply qualify it as a game. |
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Bruce indulges in some incisive improvisation, especially when dealing with the inevitable heckler. |
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At their best they combine free improvisation with an elastic approach to standards. |
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If the result of that heterogenous improvisation is a kind of untheorised postmodernism, it is the postmodernism of despair. |
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His concerts are a mixture of improvisation, passion and emotion with a candid sense of humour. |
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The strip reads like a casual improvisation, though beyond the unbalanced setting, there isn't much invention on display. |
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The structure of the performance is still in evidence but deftly hidden and the emphasis has moved to improvisation around themes. |
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This week we'll be doing more improvisation and working from scripts for the first time. |
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He would improvise one layer, and then through multi-track recording, he would lay a second layer of improvisation over the first. |
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Wearing trousers or trews was not contemplated hence the improvisation later. |
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Where modeling and analysis slow things down unacceptably, intuition and improvisation must prevail. |
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Instead, its early leaders had rapidly found themselves at the head of large empires, and a great deal of improvisation had been required. |
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The performance pursues those blissful musical moments that only spontaneity and improvisation provide. |
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Withers, the grande dame of this and previous improv festivals, spoke about improvisation during the post-show reception onstage. |
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Unlike many ballet choreographers, Webre allows his dancers to develop movement phrases through improvisation. |
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A win here would require a lot of forward planning and a great deal of improvisation. |
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One suspects that like his concert performances, there's a lot of improvisation and busking. |
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On paper, the collision of orchestral formality and big-band improvisation should have produced an utter mess. |
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All aspects of the theatre will be covered including games, improvisation, script, mime, physical theatre and clowning. |
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Backyard Theatre Company provides training for acting, mime and improvisation, scriptwriting, filmmaking and community drama. |
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This leads to an extended discussion of improvisation, with particular reference to traditional jazz. |
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Their musicianship is flawless, their improvisation and unit tightness impressive, and their connection with the audience electric. |
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The floats, although not many, were terrific, with some improvisation where wagons were not available. |
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For someone who crowed about the invaluable merits of free improvisation, he often appeared indomitable and scrupulously prepared. |
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The concept is so original and it started with a bang, the audience being welcomed to the occasion one by one with some amusing improvisation. |
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In words, as in the creation of new figures of speech, African Americans demonstrated the importance of expressiveness, improvisation, and creativity in their lives. |
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However, improvisation is not mentioned or encouraged, and the chord changes would require an above average degree of improvisational skill for an intermediate student. |
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Not only was it surprisingly good with the cabbage, it positively invited improvisation, drawing to it whatever was in season or especially appealing at the produce stand. |
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This form of gritty realist cinema relies upon constant improvisation. |
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Some have compared her editing technique, with its expository gaps and elliptical cutting, to jazz improvisation, since it has a decidedly rhythmic, musical quality. |
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Stephon also taught me that the cosmos is an improvisation in and of itself, which rejuvenated my interest in improvisational music. |
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Jazz relies heavily on improvisation, and is characterized by much use of syncopated rhythms. |
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This government initiative smells of improvisation and seems like a diversionary tactic. |
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To draw a parallel, one just has to look at jazz music, where relatively short melodies are expanded into longer pieces through improvisation. |
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These exceptional musicians plumb the depths of improvisation and bring back gems! |
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It is no doubt this personality trait that prompted her to take up the theatre and improvisation. |
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Communicative and outgoing, she is part of an improvisation team and used to be part of a theater company. |
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Rock music, though, is noise, improvisation, collaboration, theatre, showing off, truancy, pantomime, aggression, bliss, tranced collectivity. |
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Ours is not an age when intelligent improvisation may be counted upon to see us through with any degree of satisfaction. |
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In 1987 you started to give improvisation lessons at home entirely disinterestedly. |
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Every ensemble featuring Mr. Jordan, by contrast, knocked about in the realm of free improvisation. |
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The staging of the scene was, typically, a last-minute improvisation, a conjuration out of chaos. |
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This improvisation across two cities on two stages continues to boggle the minds of artists and public alike. |
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While I looked on, he let loose a fast-figured, at times piercingly dissonant improvisation, with reposeful tonal chords to close. |
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They have a strong background in improvisation, verbal and physical comedy and great technical skills in robotic mime. |
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Through various improvisation techniques, this class aims to generate spontaneous movements in solos, duos or groups. |
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A film I could not control in every detail, shot quickly, with a good deal of improvisation, and nothing but words, a superfluity of them! |
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The apparent improvisation in the application of the new tools does not augur well for positive results. |
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Only then are they are introduced to one another for hundreds of improvisation sessions led by Leigh. |
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In paying tribute to the fallen Martin Luther King, he proved that improvisation can trump political calculation. |
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Mats begins a very beautiful improvisation on the piano followed by an impetuous duo with Morgan. |
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The workshops will investigate voice, speech, movement, improvisation, dance, mime and acting. |
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Usually, everything would go according to the previously prepared schedule, no improvisation. |
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Make no mistake about it: right now, the government's strategy has much more to do with improvisation than with careful planning. |
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I am glad that the work benefits from their talents for creation and improvisation. |
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Mr. Speaker, over the past few weeks, the Conservatives have demonstrated their improvisation skills in areas under provincial jurisdiction. |
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But there's one thing I'm sure of and that is that I'll go back to improvisation at some point. |
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When improvisation is combined with urgency, the most likely outcome is disappointment. |
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A basic training in improvisation is essential and a regular participation is highly recommended. |
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I participate in a number of activities like student council, the improvisation team, and I have been working at a movie theatre for a year. |
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Practicing or not an instrument then using improvisation as a tool of creation? |
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This is combined with personal improvisation, involving dance and show like playing. |
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Political speakers sent to deliver propaganda to the masses might succumb to improvisation. |
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Financial problems lead to excessive improvisation in programming for some meetings. |
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The clog dance is continually in a state of change and improvisation such that today it is performed not only to country and bluegrass music but also to pop. |
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He started out with very strong ideas about how he wanted the narrative to run and then prepared his actors, encouraging ad-libs and improvisation throughout. |
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A milestone in the quest for insightful rapprochement between composition and improvisation, Joy Shapes is an incredibly opulent and worryingly irresistible album indeed. |
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Together, they harness decades of experience in a variety of styles to make a musical statement that is rooted in tradition but with no fear of improvisation. |
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His own music, as most recently heard on the new double studio album, mixes freewheeling improvisation with playful swing and the occasional funky backbeat. |
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As a bandleader, he bullyragged a shifting lineup of modern jazz virtuosos into performances which combined precision execution with emotionally-charged improvisation. |
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If this degree of chaotic improvisation exists within Sochi, just how inviolable is that Ring of Steel around it? |
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He lurched from story to story and sometimes into improvisation with no reason for or momentum to his overall line of thought. |
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It offers workshops providing acting skills, voice, movement, mime, improvisation, text reading, stagecraft, character development and confidence building. |
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Central to all music from Syria and Arab countries are monophony and heterophony, vocal flourishes, subtle intonation, rich improvisation, and the Arab scales. |
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It tends to happen in ballet when landing large jumps, or in forms such as contact improvisation, in which the body twists while the foot stays in contact with the floor. |
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Both improvisation and the musical hold the contradictory idea that spontaneous performance is available to all and that some people are more spontaneous or open than others. |
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Combining elements of live improvisation with beat manipulation, Cinematic Orchestra creates soundtracks for movies that exist in some parallel universe. |
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It was a work of improvisation performed with a double quartet. |
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However certain well known tunes come up extremely bright and shiny, mixed with the sparkling transient tones of his freer moments in improvisation. |
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If radical reform was not undertaken, warned Mohamed Sahnoun, then the UN would continue to respond to such crisis with inept improvisation. |
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Wireless allowed tactical control and far quicker improvisation than the opponent. |
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He played best with a great foil, his ridiculous relish for excess up against John Gielgud's elegant Home Counties restraint, his penchant for improvisation unnerving the stage actor's disciplined regard for the script. |
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In Brussels you can meet Asimo, the world's most advanced humanoid robot, enjoy a theatrical improvisation about the life of scientists or dance the night away to two researchers' orchestras. |
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This is the aim of the great cellist Ernst Reisjeger who, from a lyric framework, derives towards improvisation and contemporary music, while remaining fascinated by traditional music. |
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His son, Denardo Coleman, played drums with hard insistency, even bombast, but he also kept closely attuned to the flow of improvisation. |
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Declining without rousing suspicion demands a talent for improvisation. |
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A pioneer of polyphony, counterpoint, and improvisation, pianist and composer Dave Brubeck is a genuine living legend who took the genre to new summits of style and popularity. |
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The final movement bears an unusual design: it begins with a wandering improvisation akin to a vocal recitative, which precedes what appears at first to be the most sober and austere of fugues. |
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This recording is a manifesto: modernism, culture, temporality, style, improvisation are all concepts with which Joël Grare plays, like a juggler. |
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Ironically, this recent evolution is a direct result of the preservation process itself, for improvisation is tending to be stifled by the increasing number of written texts. |
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When a market that has become very fluid spawns relations that are improvised, aggressive and verging on violent, some of the actors will apply the institutional brakes necessary to curb the costs of such improvisation. |
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Pretending that structural change will suffice, and reacting later with surprise, astonishment and improvisation to predictable consequences when this approach proves flawed, may not be the way. |
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The Gibbs Raffel Duo weds primitivist free improvisation, visceral ostinati and guttural distortions of Korean Zen nonsense syllables in a surprisingly rich landscape of instrumental sound. |
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Paul Merton and the Impro Chums opened the weekend with an evening of improvisation and sketches. |
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The aim of the workout exercises is ultimately to play music, therefore to play musical pieces, written music at first, then music with more and more improvisation in it. |
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It would very quickly be the formula adapted by all of the groups, an effective way of allowing the lead guitarist to show his virtuosity in improvisation. |
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We shall blend at the same time, writing, orchestration and improvisation as well, on the musical elements offered by the young composers participating to the workshop. |
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It will focus on improvisation, extended techniques and the quartertone flute. |
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They were characterized by the reductive philosophies of minimalism and the spontaneous improvisation and expressivity of abstract expressionism. |
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Greta Gerwig has acted in mumblecore features, and she has the relaxation and the changeableness of an actress who has done improvisation on camera. |
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The music therapist brought in a metallophone and introduced Chelsea to improvisation. |
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Not all their pillaging is off-the-cuff improvisation. |
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Without conceding to any particular facility, he knows how to abolish the conventions of musical genres, blurring the tracks and the boundaries of jazz improvisation, pop and classical counterpoint, all with an impish glee. |
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The desire for manifoldness, for freedom of improvisation as well as for the form and deepness of the classical music induced Eckhard Radmacher and Wilhelm Geschwind to bring together both genres in one program. |
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My other new roommate also does improvisation and is a very social person. Alex is before all someone who surfs life, always a bit distracted, going from one activity to another. |
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Meanwhile, La Rocambolesque invades the Union Française for a very special session of theatrical improvisation: comedic performances, improvisation, marionettes? |
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To the polyphonic science is added, paradoxically, the charm of spontaneity, as the work, during its execution, gives the impression of an improvisation along the ostinato bass lines of the tetrachord. |
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A lot of improvisation also, as is illustrated by the many solutions or strategems dreamt up by teachers specifically to help one or other of their residents. |
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Like that album's career-reviving qualities, Blackstar pioneers new ground It's the most extreme album of his career, sketching a bleak soundscape awash with miasmic strings, brooding horns and banshee sax improvisation. |
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We will start with an alap improvisation, then the question-answer, very strong melodyhanging, then percussion solos. |
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It is the Famille Lela who will bowl over enthusiasts of improvisation, all those who think that since Sidney Bechet one can't play the clarinet anymore. |
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Rarely performed, they are especially noteworthy for their high-spiritedness and the singing qualities of their melodies, and are replete with Händel's genius, youth, impetuousness, and wonderful sense of improvisation. |
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Smarter investments are necessary because the repeated failure and improvisation of Montréal's current Administration in terms of coordinating the refection efforts and costs is alarming. |
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Legend has it that one evening, at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni, the two musicians engaged in a friendly duel of improvisation and virtuosic display. |
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Process is evident and there is a sense of energy from improvisation and risk-taking in the unlaboured making and surface treatment. |
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However, when helping to make decisions or implement assistance, improvisation must be avoided, and there must be a set procedure for action which varies according to the circumstances of the emergency. |
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But with unstructured improvisation, the risk that directionlessness will give way to pointlessness is high. |
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It covers a range of subjects, from love to philosophical and theological concepts of the universe and nature, while leaving some room for improvisation. |
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The artist plays with our instinct, our faculty for discovery and improvisation, in order to lead us toward logical deductions that are perpetually renewed. |
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By his dance style, his knowledge assets and his natural gift for improvisation, Andy is now a relatively influential dancer on the swing world stage. |
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I call it horsing around, but it's really improvisation. |
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However, I must say that, in my humble opinion, it is doing so very slowly and this creates insecurities and examples of improvisation and also creates a lack of motivation amongst staff. |
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There is improvisation in music and in life. |
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We're looking for a wide variety of experienced brass and woodwind instrumentalists with a creative spirit who are passionate about live performance, excellent at improvisation and able to play more than one instrument. |
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The album bewitches with its improvisation vocabulary, pampers with its arrangements, animates with its harmonies and always ends up surprising with its energy and its fieriness. |
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Tonic and dominant, root triads, block chords, broken chords, inversions, straight rhythm, dotted rhythm, melody singing over harmony, ensemble play and improvisation. |
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As a result, you could say that the Arab lutist and Portuguese vocalist invert and challenge tradition, taking their cues from a borderless spirit of jazz improvisation. |
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In spite of the name, the style often has a fast and happy rhythm, characterized by virtuosity, improvisation, subtle modulations and full of syncopation and counterpoint. |
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The musical styles range from impressionistic to improvisation over a walking octave bass to Chopin-like arpeggiation to open chords to running eighth notes. |
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Spike Milligan later noted that Sellers was very proficient on the drums and might have remained a jazz drummer, had he lacked his skills in mimicry and improvisation. |
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There are two general conceptions of improvision. The first, commonly applied is of a rather romantic woolly kind. It suggests that anything can happen in improvisation. |
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The romanesca originated in Spain and is composed of a sequence of four chords with a simple, repeating bass, which provide the groundwork for variations and improvisation. |
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Command and control problems were experienced, but owing to the flexibility and improvisation of both the army and Luftwaffe, these problems were solved. |
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