Improvised Music

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    “If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the world is provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer’s contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.”
    —Eric Bentley (b. 1916)

    “Yankee Doodle, keep it up,
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    Mind the music and the step,
    And with the girls be handy.”
    —Richard Shuckburg (1756–1818)