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This kind of improvised harmonizing they called a Quodlibet, and not only could laugh over it quite whole-heartedly themselves, but also aroused just as hearty and irresistible laughter in all who heard them.
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This could reflect Guest's background in theater, and simply a kind of meta-commentary, as a real performance is of course what is being improvised for the duration.
Some big ensembles, like the Joe " King " Oliver outfit played a kind of half arranged, half improvised jazz, often relying on “ head ” arrangements.
The jig, a kind of rustic cousin to commedia dell ' arte, featured as many as five performers in a partially improvised song-and-dance routine.
The major indigenous form of music is the scratch band ( also called fungi band in the British Virgin Islands ), which use improvised instruments like gourds and washboards to make a kind of music called quelbe.
Kantan Chamorrita is a kind of improvised poetry with a call and response format that is documented back to 1602 and remains a vital part of Chamorro culture.
αμανές ) refers to a kind of improvised sung lament, in ummeasured time, sung in a particular dromos / makam.
O ' Brien uses an improvised compass to locate the origin of the field, where he discovers a generator of some kind buried beneath the sand.
In addition to scripted comedies and tragedies, Parisians were also great fans of the Italian acting troupe who performed their Commedia dell ' arte, a kind of improvised theater based on types.
He later returned in the second series, to play the part of the belligerent shaman Saboo, where he improvised the line ' an erotic adventurer of the most deranged kind ' when describing Kirk, a fellow shaman played by Noel Fielding's girlfriend's nephew.
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All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.
I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.
They think of it as a kind of spooky museum in which they may half see and half imagine the old splendor.
In no other situation would a group of doctors, struggling competently to improve the life expectancy of a man beloved by the world, be subjected to such merciless and persistent questioning, and before they were prepared to demonstrate the kind of verbal precision which alone can clarify for mankind the problems it faces.
This was the crassest kind of materialism and they, the Artists, would have no truck with it.
Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.
if Breasted agreed, they would get a car and tour the country, visiting every kind of industrial center.
they sweated out some kind of formal education ; ;
Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.
He imagined they were the kind whose tax returns were never examined ( if they were, they were never penalized ), whose children had no unhappy romances, whose names never knew scandal.
Only four towns indicated that they made any more than a normal effort to list property of this kind.
One of the most attractive things about avocados is that they do not require processing of any kind.
that is, they are likely to favor a kind of education that has vocational-advancement value.
This does not necessarily mean that such teachers will favor vocational education, as contrasted with liberal education, but they are likely to favor an approach to liberal education which has a maximal vocational-advancement value, as against a kind of `` pure '' liberal education that is not designed to help people get better jobs.
that is, he was unaware what kind of objects they were or what their use was.
A kind of panic paralyzes their features, as though they found themselves trapped on the edge of a steep place.
As far as the color problem is concerned, there is but one great difference between the Southern white and the Northerner: the Southerner remembers, historically and in his own psyche, a kind of Eden in which he loved black people and they loved him.
The director of the post at Mobile kept an adequate amount of French goods, of a kind to which they were accustomed, to supply the Indian needs.
It will be painful, but interesting, to see what kind of a god these people will create or what strong convictions they will develop.
The two kids were together a lot, they were having some kind of teen-age affair -- God knows how far that had gone -- and the kid's crippled.
`` We must persuade them to enjoy a way of life which, if not identical, is congenial with ours '', he said but adding that if they do not develop the kind of society they themselves want it will lack ritiuality and loyalty.
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What is now called Christian fellowship is often little more than the social chumminess of having a gracious time with the kind of people one likes.
It is not developing an awareness of the new kind of missionary strategy that is called for as young churches emerge in Asia and Africa.
Mr. Robards -- Jenny was the only person she knew of in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood who called him that -- was kind but too easygoing.
His solution was a kind of corporatism called " group government ".
By allowing a new kind of equality among citizens this opened the way to democracy, which in turn called for a new means, chattel slavery, to at least partially equalise the availability of leisure between rich and poor.
This kind of formal English, particularly written English, is often called " standard English ".
An accumulator machine, also called a 1-operand machine, or a CPU with accumulator-based architecture, is a kind of CPU where, although it may have several registers, the CPU mostly stores the results of calculations in one special register, typically called " the accumulator ".
By extension, the term " embark " literally means to board the kind of boat called a " barque ".
Additional help was given by a kind of Catholic Churchman's Almanack, called the Ordo Recitandi Divini Officii, published in different countries and dioceses, and giving, under every day, minute directions for proper reading.
Most scholars of copyright agree that it can be called a kind of property, because it involves the exclusion of others from something.
The mathematicians and computer programmers that do this kind of work are called gaming mathematicians and gaming analysts.
At the turn of the 1st century AD, a kind of folded parchment notebook called pugillares membranei in Latin became commonly used for writing in the Roman Empire.
This kind of cultural imperialism is derived from what is called " soft power ".
The fruit is often a kind of modified berry called a pepo.
In order to remove aliasing, all rendering algorithms ( if they are to produce good-looking images ) must use some kind of low-pass filter on the image function to remove high frequencies, a process called antialiasing.
The district was originally called Sacopenapã ( translated from the tupi language, it means " the way of the socós ( a kind of bird )") until the mid-18th century.
Other people called for the General Secretary to either be elected by the people, or a " kind of party referendum ".
Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the “ dean of the Impressionist painters ", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also " by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality ”.
In linguistics, creaky voice ( sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry ), is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together ; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact.
Cactus spines are produced from specialized structures called areoles, a kind of highly reduced branch.
A varied group of individuals are on a pilgrimage to solicit a kind of demon-god called " the Shrike " on the planet " Hyperion " in a universe on the edge of the apocalypse.
Aristotle developed a comprehensive theory of being, according to which only individual things, called substances, fully have being, but other things such as relations, quantity, time, and place ( called the categories ) have a derivative kind of being, dependent on individual things.
This presentation also emphasizes the notation of the two kinds of Bernoulli numbers, called the first and the second kind, which are of equal legitimacy, and in principle not to favor of each other.
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