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Definition: Scherzo |
ScherzoNoun1. A fast movement (usually in triple time). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Scherzo \Scher"zo\, noun. [Italian]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Scherzo |
| Non-English Usage: "Scherzo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (scherzo), Italian (banter, child's play, frolic, frolics, gag, game, hoaw, jape, jest, joke, lark, play, prank, quiz, rag, trick, trifle), Spanish (scherzo), Swedish (scherzo). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A scherzo (plural scherzi) is a name given to a piece of music or a movement from a larger pieces such as a symphony. The word literally means "joke" in Italian. Sometimes the word scherzando is used in musical notation to indicate that a passage should be played in a humourous way.
The scherzo developed from the minuet, and gradually came to replace it as the third (or sometimes second) movement in symphonies, string quartets, sonatas and similar works. It typically retains the 3/4 time signature and ternary form of the minuet, but is considerably quicker. It is often, but not always, of a light-hearted nature. A few examples of scherzi exist which are not in the normal 3/4 time, such as in Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 18.
Joseph Haydn wrote minuets which are very close to scherzi in tone, but it was Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert who first used the form widely, with Beethoven in particular turning the polite rhythm of the minuet into a much more intense, and sometimes even savage dance.
The scherzo remained a standard movement in the symphony and related forms right through the 19th century, and composers also began to write scherzi as pieces in themselves, with Frederic Chopin writing four quite well known ones for the piano.
An unrelated use of the word in music is in light-hearted madrigalss of the renaissance period, which were often called scherzi musicali. Claudio Monteverdi, for example, wrote two sets of works with this title, the first in 1607, the second in 1632.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scherzo."
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Movie/TV Titles | Scherzo - Verwitterte Melodie (1943) Een Scherzo furioso (1990) Scherzo del destino (1984) | |
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| "Scherzo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.74% of the time. "Scherzo" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.74% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.26% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "scherzo": scherzo-like. | |
Ending with "scherzo": valse-scherzo. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scherzo | 22 |
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| Language | Translations for "scherzo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скерцо. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | scherzo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκέρτσο (joke), είδοσ ζωηράσ μουσικήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | スケート靴 (scale, scale merit, scaling, scaling factor, scapegoat, schedule, scheduler, scheduling, skateboard, skates, skeleton, skeptic, skepticism, sketch, sketch phone, sketchbook, vernier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | スケルツォ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erzoschay скерцо (scherzi, scherzos). (various references) scherzo. (various references) scherzo. (various references) canlı çalınan bölüm. (various references) скерцо. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "scherzo": scherzos. (additional references) | |
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"Scherzo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chedzoy, dshcher, Scherbo, schertzo, scherzi, schizo, Schmerhom, Schuetze, shizo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "scherzo" (pronounced 'Scher"zo'): Calabozo, Corosso, Corozo, intermezzo, mestizo, mezzo, Rebozo. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: zorches. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-o-r-s-z" | |
-1 letter: chores, cosher, crozes, ochers, ochres. | |
-2 letters: ceros, chore, chose, cores, corse, cozes, croze, echos, heros, hoers, horse, ocher, ochre, score, shoer, shore, zeros, zorch. | |
-3 letters: cero, chez, core, cors, cosh, echo, eros, hero, hers, hoer, hoes, hose, orcs, ores, recs, resh, rhos, rocs, roes, rose, shoe, sore, zero. | |
-4 letters: cor, cos, coz, ers, her, hes, hoe, oes, ohs, orc, ore, ors, ose, rec, res, rho, roc, roe, sec, ser, she. | |
-5 letters: eh, er, es, he, ho, oe, oh, or, os, re, sh, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-o-r-s-z" | |
+1 letter: scherzos. | |
+2 letters: chromizes, zoochores. | |
+3 letters: chernozems, scherzando. | |
+4 letters: historicize, scherzandos, synchronize. | |
+5 letters: achromatizes, historicized, historicizes, schizophrene, synchronized, synchronizer, synchronizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 68 65 72 7A 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .... . .-. --.. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110010 01111010 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c h e r z o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0068 0065 0072 007A 006F |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53697471849281 |
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