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

This is not the kind of prelude to pass from one key to another, but merely a capriccio to try over a piano.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig

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

I had in mind the definition of a capriccio given by Praetorius, the celebrated musical authority of the eighteenth century.

From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor

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