Crossword clues for reprise
reprise
- Do again
- Do again, as a role
- Sing again, as for a show finale
- Play again, as a role
- Sinatra's 1960s record label
- Return to a theme, as in a symphony
- Record company started by Sinatra
- Musical-show comeback
- Musical refresher
- Feature of many a musical soundtrack
- Common musical wrap-up
- Closing number of a musical, often
- 99D, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reprise \Re*prise"\, v. t. [Written also reprize.]
To take again; to retake. [Obs.]
--Spenser.To recompense; to pay. [Obs.]
Reprise \Re*prise"\ (r?-pr?z"), n. [F. reprise, fr. reprendre, repris, to take back, L. reprehendere. See Reprehend.]
A taking by way of retaliation. [Obs.]
--Dryden.pl. (Law) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like. [Written also reprizes.]
--Burrill.A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "yearly deduction from charges upon a manor or estate," from Old French reprise "act of taking back" (13c.), fem. of repris, past participle of reprendre "take back," from Latin reprendere, earlier reprehendere, earlier reprehendere (see reprehend). Meaning "resumption of an action" is from 1680s. Musical sense is from 1879.
early 15c., from Old French repris, past participle of reprendre (see reprise (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A recurrence or resumption of an action. 2 (context music English) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme. 3 (context fencing English) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position. 4 A taking by way of retaliation. 5 (context legal in the plural English) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled (term reprizes English). 6 A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate. vb. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To take (something) up or on again. 2 To repeat or resume an action 3 (context obsolete English) To recompense; to pay.
WordNet
v. repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: reprize, repeat, recapitulate]
Wikipedia
In music, a reprise is the repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition as occurs in the recapitulation of sonata form, though—originally in the 18th century—was simply any repeated section, such as is indicated by beginning and ending repeat signs.
"Reprise" is episode 15 of season 2 in the television show Angel. Written by Tim Minear and directed by James Whitmore, Jr., it was originally broadcast on February 20, 2001 on the WB network. In this episode, Angel learns that during the impending Wolfram & Hart 75-Year Review, the firm is visited by one of the demonic Senior Partners. The demon wears a ring with the power to transport to the firm’s hellish Home Office, which Angel steals with the aid of a magically protective glove. When Angel travels to the Home Office, he learns it is on Earth, and depressed, seeks solace in Darla's arms. Meanwhile, Kate's life falls apart when she is fired from the police force.
Reprise is the third album by British tenor Russell Watson released in 2002.
Reprise is a Norwegian film directed by Joachim Trier. Co-written over the course of five years with Eskil Vogt, it is Trier's first feature-length film. In 2006 it was the Norwegian candidate for the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
Reprise is the repetition of a passage in music.
Reprise may also refer to:
- Reprise (fencing)
- La Reprise novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet
- "Reprise" (Angel), a 2001 episode of the television program Angel
- Reprise (film), a 2006 Norwegian film
Usage examples of "reprise".
Anna Chiara Galilei, brought three daughters and her youngest son, Michelangelo, only to perish there with them during a brief reprise of the plague in 1634.
The pista program resumed, and again went perfectly, and closed with a reprise of the anthem.
Chicago, a strange reprise of how the evening had started, just a different mood.
But the Azerbaijani man sighed and made a comment that in its simplicity and precision of vocal gesture seemed both to reprise my thoughts and to invest them with the pathos common to all those disoriented by the test of life.
Fuchs not knowing whether to put down his left foot or his right until Joe marshalled the notes into a resolute 2-4 and marched them into a proper waltz, where he left them for dead and reprised Porter as if nothing at all had happened, no Strauss, no bebop.
A dozen more Buinites reprised their dead fellow's actions within the next ten seconds.
The tenor's reprise naturally followed, on the third manual, mellower than the soprano range.
James reprises Danny Getchell, the cannily corrupt star writer of Hush-Hush magazine, who has the grisly goods on almost everyone in Tinseltown and will blackmail anyone to obtain exclusive dirt.
Yu Shu Lien strives to lead Jen onto the path of virtue, but following a duel between the two and a flashback sequence that reprises the inception of the love affair between the princess and the outlaw, Jen runs away.
If future viewers picked up reprises of Bonanza or Mister Ed, no one should be alarmed.
For a few moments he considered reprising his Wily Codger routine from the year before.
I gathered the house specialized in new works by established playwrights, though there was the occasional old war-horse guaranteed to put butts in seats, and a few revivals of faded stars who'd only had the one hit, reprising the role for the ninety-ninth time.
In the courteous way of metapsychics, he opened the deeper level of his mind in explanation, reprising the memory of his last meeting with Marc.
She and I, we're like two elderly actors reprising the characters which we once did so much better in another Age.
This intestinal visitation did indeed prove to be nightly, a quarter of an hour reprising the terror of that death.