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Scherzo   Listen
noun
Scherzo  n.  (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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Scherzo" Quotes from Famous Books



... the shells, the noise when they left the gun and when they burst, reminded him of the passage with cymbals in the divine scherzo of the Ninth Symphony. When he heard overhead as from an airy music-box the buzzing of these steel mosquitoes, mischievous, imperious, angry, treacherous, or simply full of amiable carelessness, he felt like a street boy rushing out to ...
— Clerambault - The Story Of An Independent Spirit During The War • Rolland, Romain



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