Improvisation as art: conceptual challenges, historical perspectives

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Improvisation as Art traces how modernity''s emphasis on inventiveness has changed the meaning of improvisation; and how the ideals and laws that led improvisation to be banned from ""high art"" in the eighteenth century simultaneously enabled the inventive reintegration of improvisation into modernism.

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