1) Art genre 2) Caprice but Italian 3) Caprice 4) Caprice in Italian 5) Composition 6) Italian words and phrase 7) Italian musical form 8) Italian musical term 9) Musical composition 10) Musical term to an Italian 11) Musical term in Rome 12) Musical form term 13) Opera by Richard Strauss 14) Opera set in France
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1) Caprice 2) Humoresque
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[Janáček] The Capriccio for Piano Left-Hand and Chamber Ensemble (sometimes titled Defiance, in Czech: Vzdor) is a composition by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. The work was written in the autumn of 1926 and is remarkable not just in the context of Janáček`s output, but it also occupies an exceptional position in the literature wri...
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[art] In painting, a capriccio (kaˈprittʃo, plural: capricci kaˈprittʃi; in older English works often anglicized as `caprice`), means especially an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological remains and other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastical combinations, perhaps with staffage of figures. ...
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[music] A capriccio or caprice (sometimes plural: caprices, capri or, in Italian, capricci), is a piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character. The typical capriccio is one that is fast, intense, and often virtuosic in nature. The term has been applied in disparate ways, covering works using many different procedure...
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[opera] The opera originally consisted of a single act lasting close to two and a half hours. This, in combination with the work`s conversational tone and emphasis on text, has prevented the opera from achieving great popularity. However, at Hamburg in 1957, Rudolf Hartmann, who had directed the opera at its premiere in Munich, inserted an ...
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a type of landscape painting that reflects the whim or caprice of the painter in placing particular works of architecture in an unusual setting, such as the Roman Colosseum in a pastoral landscape or St. Paul's Cathedral on the Grand Canal in Venice.
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(from the article `capriccio`) ...century the term was occasionally applied to canzonas, fantasias, and ricercari (often modelled on vocal imitative polyphony). Baroque composers ...
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(from the article `opera`) ...some writers have called Strauss`s masterpiece; and Arabella (1933), which closely resembles Der Rosenkavalier in many details. Capriccio (1942), ...
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(from the article `veduta`) ...prison interiors, however, are examples of vedute ideate, which are realistically drawn though completely imaginary scenes. Guardi and Canaletto ... ...encouraged Canaletto to expand his range of subjects to include Roman monuments and the area of Padua and the Brenta River. Pictures composed of ... [2 ...
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lively, loosely structured musical composition that is often humorous in character. As early as the 16th century the term was occasionally applied to ...
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In art, usually a free or fantastic combination of architectural objects, real or imaginary, in a painted view. Giovanni Panini, Giambattista Piranesi, Francesco Guardi, and Hubert Robert provide...
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Ca·pric'cio (kȧ*prēt'cho)
noun [ Italian See
Caprice .]
1. (Mus.) A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called
caprice .
2. A caprice; a freak; a fancy.
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A capriccio is a musical piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme - a fantasia.
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n] - an instrumental composition that doesn`t adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation
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noun an instrumental composition that doesn`t adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation
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A quick, improvisational, spirited piece of music.
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