{"id":760,"date":"2016-05-13T23:37:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T03:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=760"},"modified":"2016-07-22T20:43:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T00:43:11","slug":"suid248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau, &#8220;Improviser&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=248 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Venue:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Date:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Author:<\/dt>\n<dd> Rousseau, Jean-Jacques<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> French<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> Dictionnaire de Musique<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>Improviser<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 252<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd> Duchesne<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd> Paris<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1768<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\"  lang=\"fr\">\n<p>IMPROVISER. <i>v.n.<\/i>  C&apos;est faire &amp; chanter impromptu des Chansons, Airs &amp; paroles, qu&apos;on accompagne commun\u00e9ment d&apos;une Guitarre ou autre pareil instrument.  Il n&apos;y a rien de plus commun en Italie, que de voir deux Masques se recontrer, se d\u00e9fier, s&apos;attaquer, se riposter ainsi par des couplets sur le meme air, avec une vivacit\u00e9 de Dialogue, de Chant, d&apos;Accompagnement dont il faut avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 t\u00e9moin pour la comprendre.<\/p>\n<p>La mot <i>improvisar<\/i> est purement Italien: mais comme il se rapporte \u00e0 la musique, j&apos;ai \u00e9t\u00e9 contraint de le franciser pour faire entendre ce qu&apos;il signifie.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n&nbsp;\n    <\/div>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta-unimportant\">\n<dt>Collected by:<\/dt>\n<dd> AE<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An entry in Rousseau&#8217;s <i>Dictionnaire de Musique<\/i> describing the musical art of improvisation, which Rousseau states must be seen in person in order to fully understand its vivacity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}