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Answer for the clue "A short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera ", 10 letters:
intermezzo

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Intermezzo (1966 – after 2 February 1995), was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire . He won two of his three races as a two-year-old in 1968 and went on to record his most important win in the Classic St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster in September 1969. ...

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n. a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera a brief show (music or dance etc) performed between the sections of another performance [syn: ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intermezzo \In`ter*mez"zo\, n. [It. See Intermede .] (Mus.) An interlude; an intermede. See Intermede .

Usage examples of intermezzo.

Nel vostro rapporto non ave­te fatto alcun cenno degli intermezzi personali con la gio­vane signora.

A group of acrobats waited to go on at the intermezzo, a crowd of jesters in red tights, caps and dagged collars studded with little gold bells.

The audience outside demanded the intermezzo entertainment with a steady rhythmic clap.

There were no more incidents like the intermezzo of groveling which had shaken Paul to his very foundations just a couple of months before.

Elsewhere in my Autobiography I have told how the Intermezzo and the Largo came to be associated in my heart with Susy and Livy in their last hours in this life.