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Definition of Improvisers
1. improviser [n] - See also: improviser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Improvisers
Literary usage of Improvisers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mediterranean Moods: Footnotes of Travel in the Islands of Mallorca, Menorca by John Ernest Crawford Flitch (1911)
"... IX THE improvisers PERHAPS it was because the daylight was showing through
the brim of my hat, perhaps because we all tramped into San Antonio together, ..."
2. Mute Vol II #4 by Mute (2006)
"He writes, he tells us, imagining free improvisers looking over his shoulder.
... This is the orientation of the free improvisers (to the act of improvising ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"To the present writer it seems that Watts belongs to the race of the great
improvisers, the race to which Tintoretto, Blake, and El Greco belong, ..."
4. Bible Lands: Their Modern Customs and Manners Illustrative of Scripture by Henry John Van-Lennep (1875)
"But there are also improvisers, who compose their verses as they sing, whether
their musical performance constitute the whole of the entertainment or be ..."
5. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1914)
"... improvisers, and, in this line, Fox was admitted to excel. He could come
straight from gambling at Brooks's, and enter with mastery into the debate. ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"He is one of those wandering minstrels and happy improvisers whom the favor of
princes had turned into poetizing beggars. ..."
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