Perhaps he wished to arouse us harshly from his dreamland, as was his habit while improvising for friends--a glissando would send them home shivering after an evening of delicious reverie.
Sikorski tells a story of the lad's improvising in church so that the priest, choir and congregation were forgotten by him.
In the twilight we had already seen red-trousered soldiers, vivid as poppies against the grass, digging trenches along the line, and at one point a group of sappersimprovising a wire footbridge across the river.
Over him stooped a nurse, improvising with delicate ministries a hasty dressing.
John Cotton compared the singers improvising the fleurettes of this kind to revelers, who, having at length reached home, cannot tell by what route they got there.
He especially excelled in improvising choral variations, and in fanciful and musicianly treatment of themes proposed by the hearer.
These operas, with their beautifully descriptive music, in which voices and orchestra co-operate with the action and scene as one, were composed at the same time that the young Franz Schubert was improvising his beautiful songs in Vienna.
At Vienna he immediately began to give concerts, in which his piano playing was the main feature, and his improvising upon themes presented by the audience.
Languages delighted her, map-drawing bored her, and composition intoxicated her, although she was better at improvising than at the real task of setting down her thoughts in black and white.
They often went to Bella Vista and enjoyed a chat, or sat looking at American art magazines, while Morland, who could not keep away from the grand piano, sat improvising memories of Debussy or compositions of his own.
He would go up to Bella Vista and play for hours on the Macleods' new grand piano, improvising beautiful airs, and sending Fay into raptures.
In Germany, "Don Juan, oder das Steinerne Gastmahl," belonged to the standing repertory of the improvising actor from the beginning of the eighteenth century.
The Italian version of the song has a national character both in rhythm and language; it is of little consequence whether Don Giovanni is supposed to be singing a well-known song, or improvising one.
He seemed to think that the privilege of improvisingshould be enjoyed only by a player on the violin, and that it would be the grossest presumption on the part of a vocalist so to indulge her imagination.
Beethoven's remarkable powers of improvisingwere often exhibited at the Breuning house.
On one occasion, while he was improvising on the theme: diligite inimicos vestros, it happened that two enemies were present.
I learned to twang the guitar with a certain amount of skill, and vied with my brother Gasparo in improvising rhymed verses, which I sang to music in our hours of recreation.
That kind of a thing works much better than simply improvisingwork on board.
Variations upon a well-known theme were at that time a favourite form of improvisation, so much so that varying and improvising were terms often used synonymously.
He avoided the common error of improvising virtuosi in the introduction of long cadenzas, "making a hash in the cadenza of what had sounded well enough in the concerto," as Dittersdorf says (Selbstbiogr.
Maxwell in Egypt has beenimprovising a few; Methuen at Malta says they can't make them there.
The British General is the product of an improvising nation.
So he set off to go thither, improvising these couplets, "Shall I be consoled when Love hath mastered the secret of me * And my heart is aglow with more than the charcoal's ardency?
Her tears ran down and wetted the ground and she had not a hand loose to wipe them from her cheeks, whilst the flies fed their fill on her skin, and she found no helper but weeping and no solace but improvising verses.
O Queen, I know it by his improvisingodes and verses all watches of the night and tides of the day.
It was improvising after all, but from the viewpoint of the player, not from that of the listener.
We read of Grillparzer, as of Goethe, that as a child he was fond of improvising dramatic performances with his playmates.
And when things were nearly at the worst, Yule restored the spirits of his local escort by improvising a wappenshaw, with a Sheffield gardener's knife, which he happened to have with him, for prize!
How often the sunlight on your paper flatters your colours, so that you think you are improvising in a most joyous way, and when you get home you find nothing but dinginess and mud!
However, the town planner will add to this by improvising mud enclosures for animals, and an occasional wall and "tower.
On one occasion Franz Ries, who was present, was asked to join, which he did--probably the only instance on record of two artists improvising on different instruments at one and the same time.
His contemporaries, however, had cause to lament, for in a few years it put a stop to all improvising and playing in public.
It is like listening to a person who, improvising on the piano, makes unexpected and subtle modulations which you hate to have escape you.
Next, Prince Metternich began improvising reels of his own invention, which turned into all sorts of fantastic measures, which were impossible to dance by.
During the whole night, the various Albanian tribes watched by turns around the corpse, improvising the most eloquent funeral songs in its honour.
An improvisingfaculty without parallel in my experience.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "improvising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
