divertimento

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For example, a piece from modernist composer Charles Ives is linked with a tall wooden chair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, a tea table with a Mozart string "divertimento" (the very music upper-class, early 19th-century diners might have been listening to), and a soothing section of Brahms 'second symphony with a comfortable-looking easy chair.

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  1. noun A chiefly 18th-century form of instrumental chamber music having several short movements. Also called divertissement.

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  • I have begun various cassations [a kind of divertimento], so I have thus responded to your desire. —  The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol.1.
  • For example, a piece from modernist composer Charles Ives is linked with a tall wooden chair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, a tea table with a Mozart string "divertimento" (the very music upper-class, early 19th-century diners might have been listening to), and a soothing section of Brahms 'second symphony with a comfortable-looking easy chair. —  Madison.com - top
  • Ronald Brautigam plays all of this music, even the early divertimento-sonatas, as if it truly matters, with excitement and real panache. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • Structurally reminiscent of one of Tchaikovsky's larger symphonies, like the Third or Fifth, Glazounov's Sixth presents us two outer movement of serious, German-based form, complemented by internal movements that owe debts to the divertimento or divertissement. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • The initial offering is Antonio Salieri's Prima la musica e poi le parole, a divertimento teatrale on the misadventures of an opera composer. —  Opera Today
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  1. Italian, from divertire, to divert, from Old French divertir; see divert.

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  1. Italian, from divertire, divert.
 

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