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Dictionary: im·promp·tu   (ĭm-prŏmp'tū, -tyū) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance: an impromptu party.
  2. Spoken, performed, done, or composed with little or no preparation; extemporaneous: a few impromptu remarks. See synonyms at extemporaneous.
adv.
With little or no preparation; extemporaneously.

n.
  1. Something, such as a speech, that is made or done extemporaneously.
  2. Music. A short composition, especially for the piano, performed in an offhand or extemporized style.

[French, from Latin in prōmptū, at hand : in, in; see in-2 + prōmptū, ablative of prōmptus, readiness, from past participle of prōmere, to bring forth. See prompt.]


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adjective

    Spoken, performed, or composed with little or no preparation or forethought: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, improvised, offhand, snap, spur-of-the-moment, unrehearsed. Informal off-the-cuff. See prepared/unprepared.

noun

    Something improvised: ad-lib, extemporization, improvisation. See planned/unplanned, prepared/unprepared.

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adj, adv

Definition: unrehearsed, improvised
Antonyms: deliberate, designed, planned, premeditated, prepared, rehearsed


Music Encyclopedia: Impromptu
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A title used for single-movement piano pieces; it implies a free, casual nature to the composer's inspiration. Among the earliest examples are Schubert's; later composers include Chopin, Schumann, Skryabin and Fauré.



Music: Impromptu
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A short, improvisational-sounding piece.

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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Without preparation; spur of the moment.

pronunciation It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. — Mark Twain, American writer, pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

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An impromptu (loosely meaning "offhand") is a free-form musical composition with the character of an improvisation, usually for a solo instrument, such as piano. The first recorded use of the term impromptu in this sense occurred in 1817, in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, an idea of the publisher to describe a piano piece by Voříšek.

Since the very concept of unpremeditated, spur-of-the-moment inspiration without studied care is at the heart of Romantic artistic theory, it didn't take long before the first generation of Romantic composers took up the idea:

The impromptu genre remained popular all throughout the 19th century.

In the 20th century there are fewer examples of composers naming their compositions "Impromptu", e.g.:

Notes

  1. ^ Journeau's works

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - improviseret
adv. - improviseret, uden forberedelse
n. - improvisation

Nederlands (Dutch)
geïmproviseerd, impromptu (muziekstuk)

Français (French)
adj. - impromptu
adv. - impromptu
n. - impromptu

Deutsch (German)
adj. - improvisiert
adv. - improvisiert
n. - (mus.) Impromptu, etwas Improvisiertes

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - αυτοσχέδιος, απροετοίμαστος, πρόχειρος
adv. - αυτοσχεδίως, εκ του προχείρου
n. - πρόχειρο σχεδίασμα, αυτοσχεδιασμός, (μουσ.) εμπρομπτί

Italiano (Italian)
improvvisato

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - improvisado
adv. - improvisadamente
n. - improviso (m)

Русский (Russian)
импровизированный, без подготовки

Español (Spanish)
adj. - improvisado, sin preparación, impremeditado
adv. - improvisadamente, de repente, en el acto
n. - cosa hecha de repente, improvisación, impromptu musical

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - oförberedd, improviserad
adv. - oförberett, improviserat
n. - improvisation, oförberett tal, impromptu (mus.)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
即席的, 即席, 即席演出, 即兴曲

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 即席的
adv. - 即席
n. - 即席演出, 即興曲

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 즉석의, 준비 없이의
adv. - 즉석에서, 임시변통으로
n. - 즉석 연설, 즉석 연주

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 即席の
adv. - 即席に
n. - 即席演説, 即興詩, 即興曲
v. - 即席に作る, 間に合わせに作る

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مرتجل (ظرف) ارتجالا (الاسم) شيء مرتجل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מאולתר‬
adv. - ‮בצורה מאולתרת, מניה וביה‬
n. - ‮יצירה מאולתרת‬


 
 

 

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