capriccio

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Finally, Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos appeared and gave the downbeat, and the perplexed audience settled down to the first U.S. performance of Ferruccio Busoni's "theatrical capriccio," Harlequin.

From Time Magazine Archive

His capriccio on the departure of a friend, with its differently labelled parts, comes distinctly under the above denomination.

From Masters of French Music by Hervey, Arthur

So I played softly and voluptuously, till my scanty repertory was exhausted, and then drifted into a tender capriccio.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

This is not too fast for the capriccio, with its pretty and ingenious rhythmical transformations.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James

Which is higher as a work of art, that tender song without words by Mendelssohn, called “Regret,” or that indescribably affecting capriccio of his marked as “Opus 33”?

From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan