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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. intermezzo 1. a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between the acts or scenes of an opera, drama, etc. 2. an instrumental piece either inserted between two longer movements in an extended composition or intended for independent performance 3. another name for interlude (sense 2) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| However lovely, it felt like a meringue after an ample main course in an all-Feld evening, particularly Intermezzo No. In fact, if space permits--which it hasn't yet--we're contemplated publishing his five-page chapter on the mission, "Opera Bouffe Intermezzo. If my perspective on the painter's canvases from the '50s is right, they amount to a hedonistic intermezzo between the work produced in the previous fraught decades and the ferocious endgame Guston resumed by unearthing his foundational themes in the 1960s. |
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