单词 | intermezzo |
释义 | intermezzon. 1. (a) A short dramatic, musical, or other performance, of a light and pleasing character, introduced between the acts of a drama or opera (or, subsequently, in the latter half of the 18th cent., performed independently, and merging in the Opera Buffa). (b) A short movement serving as a connecting link between the main divisions of a large musical work, instrumental or vocal; sometimes used for an independent piece of similar character. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > interlude intermedium1589 jiga1592 intermean1599 garlic1614 entry1631 interlude1660 by-clap1661 divertisement1667 divertissementc1728 interact1750 intermezzo1771 intermede1820 entr'acte1841 metalogue1956 society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > main division of opus > interlude intermezzo1771 intermedio1876 1771 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy 65 The intermezzo was not bad; the music pretty, but old. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Intermezzi (Ital.), the name given by the Italians to interludes, or detached dances, introduced between the acts of an opera. 1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 213 The entertainment ended with a sort of intermez. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 441/2 [Opera] In July, 1703, Italian intermezzi, or ‘interludes and musical entertainments of singing and dancing’, were performed at York Buildings. 1880 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 8 Almost all the earlier Italian plays were relieved by Intermezzi. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Oct. 4/1 The composer's predilection for instrumental music has shown itself in the so-called intermezzos which are freely interspersed through the three sections. 2. transferred. An interval; an ‘episode’. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event weird971 redeOE thingOE limpc1200 casea1250 tidingc1275 timinga1325 being?c1400 incident?1462 advenement1490 occurrent1523 accidenta1525 occurrence1539 affair1550 event1554 happening1561 événement1567 success1588 betide1590 circumstance1592 arrivage1603 eveniency1660 occurrency1671 betider1674 befalling1839 whet1849 intermezzo1851 transpiration1908 the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of time between events or interval waya1300 distancec1330 interstition1390 spacea1400 pastimea1513 vacance1533 intermission?1566 vacation1567 intervallum1574 interim1579 between-timea1586 wem1599 parenthesis1600 intermedium1611 betweena1616 fore-while?1615 interpolation1615 vacancya1616 interval1616 interstitium1624 slatcha1625 interspace1629 intermissa1633 between-spacea1641 interregnum1659 intervalea1661 interlapse1666 interlude1751 in-between1815 lapse1817 intermezzo1851 meanwhile1872 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. xi. 289 A little intermezzo of ramble was not unadvisable. 1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 264 The purgatorial intermezzo of the Catholic church. 1897 Q. Rev. Oct. 356 Impatient, bewildered, expectant in an atmosphere of intermezzo. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1771 |
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