Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective In a light playful manner. Used chiefly as a direction.
- noun A scherzando passage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, playful or sportive: noting passages to be so rendered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb (Mus.) In a playful or sportive manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb music In a
playful orsportive manner.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Sometimes the word scherzando (joking) is used in musical notation to indicate that a passage should be executed in a playful manner. "
Environment news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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A little scherzando now and then is all I'm asking.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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A little scherzando now and then is all I'm asking.
All the mad men and all the mad women can't tell a joke to save their lives 2009
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Posted December 25, 2009 at 11:11 am | Permalink buono … questo post non merita niente: … hahaha solo scherzando: P … bel post: P
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‘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.
Mens Wives 2006
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The change of time to triple, at the part marked _scherzando_ is unexpected and strikingly original.
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Arabeske (Allegro scherzando) is a sparkling wrist study.
Edward MacDowell Porte, John F 1922
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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.
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A minuet, taken scherzando, is also most original and happy.
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[Figure: Musical score excerpt of the rhythm in 6/8] of the second subject of the Allegro scherzando, page 25.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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