To do or perform (something) without prior preparation or practice: extemporized an acceptance speech.
v.intr.
To perform an act or utter something in an impromptu manner; improvise: "[When] the house lights dimmed, she could no longer read what she had written and was forced to extemporize"(Dale Peterson).
perform, do, execute - carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance"
With this useful broad understanding of extemporization, we were interested in research on the topic and did a search on the term extemporizing (extemporising, extemporize, extemporise, ekstemporering) in the Scopus database.
This would be natural given the following comment that was truthfully elicited by esteemed theater voice coach Janine Pearson (Head of Voice at the Stratford Festival) during a recent conference devoted to "Voice and the Alexander Technique" (I extemporize with her permission): "Why should an actor, who trains in voice for fours hours per day, and who is reliant upon that voice for artistic survival, esteem the opinion of a speech pathologist who has had relatively only the briefest encounter with matters vocological, pedagogic, and theatrical, particularly if said speech pathologist has never had vocal training or performance experience?"
In contrast to England, where services were required to follow the Book of Common Prayer faithfully, the Church of Scotland allowed and encouraged ministers to vary and extemporize within a loose framework.
