impromptus

I suspect a good many "impromptus" could tell just such a story as the above.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

I suspect a good many "impromptus" could tell just such a story as the above.

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

I suspect a good many "impromptus" could tell just such a story as the above.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

The telegraph is good for that, if not for anything else: it facilitates 'impromptus'. "

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

The telegraph is good for that, if not for anything else: it facilitates 'impromptus'. "

Jacqueline — Complete 1873

It is Schubert, a really great melody there, one of his impromptus, and it's played by Imogen Cooper, a British pianist.

Sacred Songs And DJs: New Classical CDs 2010

But as with so much Schubert – you could choose from the lieder, the piano sonatas, the exquisite impromptus – it's the song-like tenderness of the music, and the way it breaks out into turbulence, that brings the anguish on.

The 10 best classical tear-jerkers Fiona Maddocks 2010

First came the four late impromptus of D. 935, published posthumously, spinning their themes into long graceful chains of notes looping across the keyboard like Italian opera arias.

Music review: Emanuel Ax at Strathmore Anne Midgette 2010

His Jewishness is long marinated in Schubert impromptus and described as intellectually "ritzy".

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson Edward Docx 2010

It is Schubert, a really great melody there, one of his impromptus, and it's played by Imogen Cooper, a British pianist.

Sacred Songs And DJs: New Classical CDs 2010