Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Music An instrumental work with an improvisatory style and a free form.
- n. A prank; a caper.
- n. A whim.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A caprice; a whim. Also caprichio.
- n. A musical composition in a free, irregular, and often whimsical style: first applied to deviations from strict forms, like the fugue, especially when in quick tempo, but now extended to any fancifully irregular piece. Also caprice.
Wiktionary
- n. A sudden and unexpected or fantastic motion; a caper; a gambol; a prank, a trick.
- n. A fantastical thing or work; a caprice.
- n. A type of landscape painting that places particular works of architecture in an unusual setting.
- n. A piece of music, usually fairly free in form and of a lively character.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called
caprice . - n. A caprice; a freak; a fancy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an instrumental composition that doesn't adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation
Etymologies
- Italian; see caprice.
Examples
“More than to any one of the master's scherzos, the name capriccio would be suitable to his third "Scherzo," Op. 39, with its capricious starts and changes, its rudderless drifting.”
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
“Were it not that we attach, especially since Mendelssohn's time, the idea of lightness and light-heartedness to the word capriccio, this would certainly be the more descriptive name for the things Chopin entitled SCHERZO.”
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
“This was also the heyday of the "capriccio," or architectural and landscape fantasy, established by Marco Ricci and developed by Canaletto and Tiepolo.”
“Jacquet also appears to have been the first to use ‘capriccio’ as a musical title.”
“Cole painted this capriccio on commision for an architect famous for his Greek and Gothic Revival buildings, Ithiel Town.”
“In painting, a capriccio is an architectural fantasy that combines various buildings, ruins, or landscape elements into an extravagant juxtaposition.”
“Not a strict depiction of an actual locale, it is more in the Italian tradition of the capriccio, or imaginary scene.”
“He trembled lest he should have been the plaything of a whim, for he had heard what a capriccio might mean in an”
“This is not a 100% historically accurate rendering, by the way, just a little capriccio.”
“An _adagio_ may set a gouty father to sleep, and a _capriccio_ may operate successfully on the nerves of a valetudinary mother.”
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