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  • Duns Scotus, Metaphysician (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures) (Purdue University Press Series in the History of Philosophy)
    Duns Scotus, Metaphysician (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures) (Purdue University Press Series in the History of Philosophy)
    Author: Allan B Wolter
  • The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
    The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
    Author: N. T. Wright
  • The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus: An Introduction
    The Philosophical Vision of John Duns Scotus: An Introduction
    Author: Mechthild Dreyer
  • The Brothers Karamazov: The Constance Garnett Translation Revised by Ralph E. Matlaw : Backgrounds and Sources, Essays in Criticism (A Norton)
    The Brothers Karamazov: The Constance Garnett Translation Revised by Ralph E. Matlaw : Backgrounds and Sources, Essays in Criticism (A Norton)
    Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Art of Biblical History, The
    Art of Biblical History, The
    Author: V. Philips Long

Archive for September 12th, 2008

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Regarding the history of the term “improvisation,” and the unfortunate negative attachments that have come to be associated with it, Jeremy Begbie writes,

At first it [improvisation] carried the relatively neutral sense of extemporization, [...] By the 1850’s it appears to have acquired pejorative connotations-off-hand, lacking sufficient preparation (as in ‘improvised shelter’, ‘improvised solution’).  Many musicians [...]


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