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Improvisation vs Mugham - What's the difference?

improvisation | mugham |

As nouns the difference between improvisation and mugham

is that improvisation is improvisation while mugham is a folk musical composition of azerbaijan in a complex form that weds classical poetry and musical improvisation.

improvisation

English

(wikipedia improvisation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.
  • That which is improvised; an impromptu.
  • Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
  • The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 15 , author=Amy Lawrence , title=Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice.}}

    mugham

    English

    (wikipedia mugham)

    Alternative forms

    * mugam

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A folk musical composition of Azerbaijan in a complex form that weds classical poetry and musical improvisation.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 1, author=Meline Toumani, title=For the Love of Layla, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But the more complicated issue was that the sections composed for orchestra and chorus, in the style of a 19th-century Italian opera, seemed entirely separate from the mugham sections, long improvisations in which Mr. Qasimov interprets the plight of Majnun using one of the 24 different mughams specified by Hajibeyov. }}