Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lively and free. Used chiefly as a direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, in a free, fantastic style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mus) In a free, fantastic style.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb music
capriciously
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The festival opened, for example, with the bright and lilting "Scherzo capriccioso," one of his best folksy programmatic pieces.
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Five years of hard study enabled her to appear at a concert at Marchiennes, when she played a concerto by De Beriot and the rondo capriccioso by Saint-Saens.
Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday Lahee, Henry C 1899
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Track 15: 'Pasticcio capriccioso sopra op 64 #1 dello Chopin (' Minute Waltz ')' samplefile size will be 723280028 bytes. recording 4100.2266 seconds stereo with 16 bits @ 44100.0 Hz - >
AvaxHome Arcana 2010
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The Scherzo capriccioso sounded less rehearsed, and Alsop didn't do quite as much with the score as she did in the symphony.
Blog updates 2009
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Dvorak's Symphony No. 7 and Scherzo capriccioso are being recorded at the Meyerhoff for future release as part of a cycle of that composer's works the BSO and music director Marin Alsop have been making for the Naxos label.
Blog updates 2009
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Dvorak's Symphony No. 7 and Scherzo capriccioso are being recorded at the Meyerhoff for future release as part of a cycle of that composer's works the BSO and music director Marin Alsop have been making for the Naxos label.
Blog updates 2009
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The Scherzo capriccioso sounded less rehearsed, and Alsop didn't do quite as much with the score as she did in the symphony.
Blog updates 2009
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