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Part III: Phenomenological Explorations of Music
0 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen April 13th, 2008 in Aesthetics, Jeremy Begbie, MusicRegarding 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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