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Playful movement
Answer for the clue "Playful movement ", 7 letters:
scherzo
Alternative clues for the word scherzo
- A fast movement (usually in triple time)
- "Pastoral Symphony" movement
- Sprightly composition
- Part of many a symphony
- Playful, humorous version of the minuet
- Music beloved of the French, with variable piercing note
- Lively movement, usually in 3/4 time
- Movement as follows lion stopped by head of zookeepers
Word definitions for scherzo in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scherzo \Scher"zo\, n. [It.] (Mus.) A playful, humorous movement, commonly in 3-4 measure, which often takes the place of the old minuet and trio in a sonata or a symphony.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scherzo is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It is the beginning of the "Divergent Universe" saga which continued until The Next Life .
Usage examples of scherzo.
And in the Fifth Symphony, one of those in which he called for no vocal performers, he nevertheless managed to vary and expand the conventional suite by preceding the first allegro with a march, and separating and relieving the gargantuan scherzo and rondo with an adagietto for strings alone.
But the scherzo that led into the concussive concluding allegro energico was giving him nothing but trouble.
Listening to this mighty scherzo, we know the cynicism that corroded your spirit.
The scherzo is the flickering of mad watery lights, a fantastic whipping dance, a sudden sinister conclusion.
The trio of the scherzo is like a section of some Polynesian forest, with its tropic warmth, its monstrous growths, its swampy earth, its chattering monkeys and birds of paradise.
Somebody turned on outdoor lighting, and a Mozart piano scherzo began on the sound system.
I am now tossed upon the melancholy and broken waves of some vehement scherzo of life, the subject is but working itself out, and I will strive to apprehend it even here.
But now he was stuck, mired in the scherzo which should have been among the easiest parts to finish.
If he could just get through the scherzo, the allegro would be a breeze: all brass and bass and supplesupportive strings.
One Sunday, just like that, I composed one of the loveliest scherzos imaginable - to a louse.