Some of these latter were equal to the Italian lazzaroni, and could extemporize yarns by the hour; and there is nothing of which a sailor is half so fond as a yarn.
Eugene Pradel delivered a poem on Columbus, and proposed to extemporize tragedies and operas in French.
Yet another use, on which much ingenuity was expended in the 18th century, is to extemporize retrenchments.
It was the custom for a poet, crowned at the capitol, to extemporize or recite in verse, ere receiving the destined bays.
Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech Lord Campbell.
But, what was infinitely preferable to me, I heard him extemporize in private; yes, I was even invited to propose a theme for him to vary.
Beethoven only by the urgent solicitations of the Czerny family was after much refusal persuaded to extemporize in the presence of a certain Madame Hofdemel.
The next step will be for two children in the class toextemporize the whole phrase between them, one taking the first two bars and the other the last two.
But the child who has been accustomed to sing at sight and to extemporize with the voice in front of a class is not in the least embarrassed at being told to go to the piano and combine a sung melody with a simple piano accompaniment.
Parallel with this work the child should be taught to extemporize melodies, and to sing them.
The class will now find it quite easy to extemporize the whole of a four-bar phrase.
Other chords can now be added, and the children will be ready to extemporize short tunes, entirely at the piano, without the aid of the voice.
Side by side with this work it is advisable to get the class to extemporize chants, under the same restrictions as have been put on the melodies, i.
And the time comes when a child will sit down to the piano, and will extemporize quite happily either in F major or in F[#] major, whichever is suggested.
Memory plays a much larger part in the power to extemporize than many people realize, and if this step in the preliminary work be conscientiously taken there will be abundant results later.
I contrived to extemporize with these materials, and at last subsided into a choral melody in E minor, without being able to remember what it was.
My former opinion is now fully confirmed, that it is an absurdity to extemporize in public.
I was in the vein to extemporize successfully, and felt that I did so.
I put that paragraph into my sermon this morning to see how you would take it, after having urged me, year after year, to extemporize at least occasionally.
I have known but one other person besides Hook, who could extemporizein English; and he wanted the confidence to do it in public.
He couldextemporize on Good Form as he could extemporize on the piano.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extemporize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: extemporize; fake; improvise; play; vamp
