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/ˌɪntəmˈɛzəʊ/
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NOUN
- a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera
- a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance
- a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony
How To Use intermezzo In A Sentence
- Ambiguous consolation, but never easy sentiment, is offered in the delicately contrasting intermezzo and an uneasy, etiolated finale. Times, Sunday Times
- The middle movements, intermezzos both, are characterised by mellow string and woodwind playing.
- The intermezzo from his frivolous opera Hary Janos is considered one of his most entertaining scores.
- The "Scherzo" is shimmering with playfulness, and, in the Beethoven fashion, has a tender intermezzo amoroso. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
- Mr. van Houten worked 20 years for Philips before returning to the Dutch company in October 2010 after a four-year intermezzo serving as CEO of NXP Semiconductors—which Philips spun off in 2006—and an independent consultant for Dutch bank and insurer ING. Quick Action Is Essence of New Philips CEO's Strategy
- In Schumann's Fourth Symphony his measured speeds are so subtly controlled that again squareness is avoided, while Emil Gilels gives a magisterial account of the Piano Concerto, crisply lightened in the central Intermezzo.
- Elsewhere there were wonderful moments of limpidity – as the first movement reaches its development, and in the intermezzo above all. Lucerne Festival Orchestra – review
- Here's part one of that, and here's an intriguing intermezzo. TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
- Promenade," and "Mazurka" are to be mentioned, and a number of pieces for violin and piano, among them a finely built intermezzo, a berceuse, a romanza that should be highly effective, and a witty scherzino. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
- It's more allegretto than andante, like a Brahms symphonic intermezzo.
