divertimento

How To Use divertimento In A Sentence

• Prokofiev fashioned a suite of six pieces resembling a classical divertimento, but one laced with dissonances, evoking Stravinsky's Octet.
• Prokofiev fashioned a suite of six pieces resembling a classical divertimento, but one laced with dissonances, evoking Stravinsky's Octet.
• Haydn composed many symphonies, divertimentos, and chamber pieces for secular entertainments; several of the late symphonies from the 1780s are in three movements without minuet and some contain fugal finales.
• Like his contemporaries, Joseph Haydn wrote very early divertimentos for string quartet.
• Some keyboard divertimentos have accompaniments for other instruments, as do many contemporary keyboard sonatas.
• The divertimento is in five short movements, and humor, not abundant elsewhere on this disc, is in the forefront.
• A cassation is akin to a divertimento; Mozart composed a few early in his career, but it is a relatively unusual genre.
• I also found solace and beauty in the ethereally light Divertimento in B flat, a work which was not previously available in the Toscanini discography.