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- noun An
instrumental musical composition ,fugal in style but in a moreserious character and with longernotes .
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Examples
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In a contrapuntal work such as a fugue (or ricercar), the leading phrase226 that sets the pattern of movement for the other voices was called the Dux.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Lighter works include chansons, songs in Neapolitan dialect villanellas, and some important early examples of the instrumental ricercar.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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The centerpiece of the Cantata (1952) is a ricercar to a fifteenth-century "Sacred History" entitled "To-morrow shall be my dancing day."
'Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange Taruskin, Richard F. 1989
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In the numerous instrumental and secular vocal forms which were developed at this time and later (ricercar, canzone, tiento, toccata, præambulum, capriccio, chanson, strambotto, madrigal), original melodies were often substituted for a cantus flrmus taken from the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Tellingly, the elegance seems equally as at home in the decorative filigree of the sonata as in the expansiveness of the six-voice ricercar.
AvaxHome RSS: 2008
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The entire work, therefore, is a ricercar in the original, literal sense of the word. "
The Dream of Mind and Machine Rothstein, Edward 1979
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