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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/All' improvista

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68938Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — All' improvistaJohn Weeks Moore

All' improvista. (I.) Extemporaneous. This expression is applied by the Italians to the performance of any extemporary strain ; as, "He sang All Improvista;" i. e., he sang without pre-meditation; he invented as he proceeded.