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What does improvisation mean?

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Noun
  1. The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously
  2. That which is improvised; an impromptu.
  3. Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
  4. The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
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The performances gain from free expression and improvisation and Soderbergh's habit of shooting in single takes.
Withers, the grande dame of this and previous improv festivals, spoke about improvisation during the post-show reception onstage.
The Zen-derived notion of spontaneous improvisation became the essence of bebop, the post-war jazz movement.
The set is a loose, three-way group improvisation in which the leader plays an entirely collaborative part.
I almost always compose using material originally produced through improvisation.
A win here would require a lot of forward planning and a great deal of improvisation.

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