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3 points continued

Jim Palmer wrote:
"...in college, in search of a definition of improvisation,
we came up with the term "spontaneous composition...."


The classical composer Arnold Schoenberg is credited as saying:

"Compostion is just really slow Improvisation."

when I'm teaching young students approaches to improvisation I turn it
around and
say:

"Improvisation is just really fast Composition"


Rick