improvisatory
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- improvisatorially adverb
Etymology
Origin of improvisatory
1800–10; improvisator + -y 1; see -ory 1
Example Sentences
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There were decades of traveling the world giving improvisatory keyboard recitals that sometimes included all-night organ recitals in Gothic French cathedrals.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025
“I learned a lot by seeing how at ease and improvisatory they are,” Cumberbatch said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025
Throughout the album, her delivery feels questing and improvisatory.
From New York Times • May 10, 2024
The artist, now 89, draws from the improvisatory impulses of jazz, the power of Abstract Expressionism, the eclectic excessiveness of assemblage and the academic classicism of Renaissance painting.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024
This can be alternated with whole group/solo/whole group/solo, to create an improvisatory piece.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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