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intermezzo (ĭntərmĕt`sō, –mĕd`zō). 1 Any theatrical entertainment of a light nature performed between the divisions of a longer, more serious work. 2 In the 17th and 18th cent., a short independent comic scene with everyday characters was interpolated between acts of serious operas. In the 18th cent. it developed into opera buffa (see opera opera, drama set to music.
3 In the 19th cent., a short independent piece having the character of an interlude, or a movement of such character in a larger work such as a symphony or sonata. It was a favorite form of Schumann and Brahms. |
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| Pallen notes that Vasari also omits reference to his innovative use of a painted sipario (curtain), decorations of the auditorium and stage, and interaction between the intermezzi and the action for a production of Cofaneria in Florence in 1565 with intermezzi designed by Buontalenti. seems also to have improved upon the text of some verse intermezzi for publication, unless that was done by their original composer Luigi Alamanni. All of these, taken together, define the new mascherata in recognizable terms, and directly prefigure its later development in the spectacles and intermezzi of the Florentine grand-dukes, in French ballets du cour, and in English masques. |
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