Look up: intermezzo

1. Intermezzo
   Intermezzo is a musical term for a short musical piece, generally of a light sparkling character, played between the parts of a more important work, such as an opera, drama, etc. Pieces intended for independent performance are sometimes designated by this name by the French and Italians.
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2. Intermezzo
   A short musical composition usually offered between the acts of a longer operatic work. These were light-hearted in nature, with very small casts: La serva padrona by Pergolesi is an example. The term can also refer to an instrumental interlude between acts of operas, such as the Intermezzo in Mascagni
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3. intermezzo
   [n] - a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony 2. [n] - a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera
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4. Intermezzo
   A short piece of music, often fitting between other movements of a larger work or a single character piece
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5. Intermezzo
   In`ter·mez'zo noun [ Italian See Intermede .] (Mus.) An interlude; an intermede. See Intermede .
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6. intermezzo
   noun a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera
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7. Intermezzo
   • (n.) An interlude; an intermede. See Intermede.
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8. Intermezzo
   (from the article `Bergman, Ingrid`) ...where she studied for a year. Her screen debut in Munkbrogreven (1935; The Count of the Monk`s Bridge), was followed by challenging roles in such ...
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9. Intermezzo
   (from the article `Strauss, Richard`) ...of Mozart`s The Magic Flute that requires singing on a scale to match its grandiose conception and staging. Its portraiture of the lowly dyer ...
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10. Intermezzo
    (from the article `Giraudoux, Jean`) ...with Siegfried, a dramatization of his own novel, which introduced the actor and director Louis Jouvet, with whom Giraudoux was associated until ...
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11. intermezzo
    in music and theatre, an entertainment performed between the acts of a play; also a light instrumental composition. In the late 15th and 16th ... [7 related articles]
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12. intermezzo
    intermezzo 1. A short dramatic, musical, or other performance, of a light and pleasing character, introduced between the acts of a drama or opera. 2. A short movement serving as a connecting link between the main divisions (in the middle) of a large musical work, instrumental or vocal; sometimes used for an independent piece of similar character.
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13. intermezzo
    intermezzo (inturmet'sō, –med'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 ser...
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14. intermezzo
    In music, initially a one-act comic opera, such as Giovanni Pergolesi's La serva padrona/The Maid as Mistress (1732); also a short orchestral interlude played between the acts of an opera to denote the passage of time. By extension, an intermezzo has come to mean a short piece to be played between other more subst...
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15. InterMezzo
    (file system) `InterMezzo` is an obsolete distributed file system written for Linux, distributed under the GPL. The kernel component is not included in the current 2.6 kernel. It was included in the standard Linux kernel from kernel version 2.4.15 but was dropped from the 2.6 kernel. InterMez...
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16. Intermezzo
    In music, an `intermezzo` (Italian, plural: intermezzi), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work. In music history, the term has had several different usages, which fit into...
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17. Intermezzo
    (opera) `Intermezzo` is an opera in two acts by Richard Strauss to his own German libretto, described as a Bürgerliche Komödie mit sinfonischen Zwischenspielen (bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes). It premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on November 4, 1924, with se...
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