Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. In a light playful manner. Used chiefly as a direction.
- n. A scherzando passage.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In music, playful or sportive: noting passages to be so rendered.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. (Mus.) In a playful or sportive manner.
Etymologies
- Italian (Wiktionary)
- Italian, gerund of scherzare, to joke, from Old Italian; see scherzo. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Sometimes the word scherzando (joking) is used in musical notation to indicate that a passage should be executed in a playful manner. ”
“A little scherzando now and then is all I'm asking.”
“Posted December 25, 2009 at 11:11 am | Permalink buono … questo post non merita niente: … hahaha solo scherzando: P … bel post: P”
“‘Nabucodonosore,’ with Count Pizzicato, with a bellezza, a grandezza, a raggio, that excited in the bosom of the audience a corresponding furore: her scherzando was exquisite, though we confess we thought the concluding fioritura in the passage in Y flat a leetle, a very leetle sforzata.”
“The change of time to triple, at the part marked _scherzando_ is unexpected and strikingly original.”
“Arabeske (Allegro scherzando) is a sparkling wrist study.”
“An appalling scheme of self-amusement is seen in his "Caprice," in which a theme of eight measures 'length is instrumented with almost every contrapuntal device known, and with psychological variety that runs through five movements, scherzando, vigoroso, con sentimento, religioso, and a marcia fantastico.”
“A minuet, taken scherzando, is also most original and happy.”
“[Figure: Musical score excerpt of the rhythm in 6/8] of the second subject of the Allegro scherzando, page 25.”
“The scherzando which follows is a very light movement, and needs to be played with great delicacy and spirit.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘scherzando’.
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one-word band names
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GRE list 1
Bloviate, Bacchanalia, mirth, covet, inconsequential, prescient, heresy, revelry, modality, gentrify, vitiate, tantalize and 182 more...
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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Summer 12
vitrine, viaduct, traceries, taxonomic, ternary, vicegerent, stratagem, vermeil, shippon, rostral, scherzando, retinue and 197 more...
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smerus's Words
syzygy, adumbrate, fuselage, taghairm, quotidian, theremin, eleemosynary, quagmire, arthropod, infangthief, scherzando, diaeresis and 23 more...
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