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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
- Opera is music, drama, literature, dance, theater and art as a comprehensive integration of art, usually by the Aria, Recitative, ensemble, chorus, Overture, Intermezzo , dances and other components.
- Elsewhere there were wonderful moments of limpidity – as the first movement reaches its development, and in the intermezzo above all. Lucerne Festival Orchestra – review
- INSIDER TIP: Po recently launched an intermezzo meaning between lunch and dinner menu, so food is available all day long, and all items are $12 and under. Michelle Won: My Trip to the Nutcracker and Dinner at Po, Which Ended Up Being Nutcracker Part 2
- There was plenty of jaunty energy in the folkish Intermezzo, enriched by bare fourths and fifths.
- Now head chef at Cornell's Phi Kappa Psi house, he recently prepared an ornate meal for parents' weekend: salmon baked with chipotle remoulade, an intermezzo of blood orange sorbet, duck roasted with tart cherry sauce on pecan rice and three chocolate mousses. Dude, Those Candied Walnuts Go Great at a Kegger
- It's more allegretto than andante, like a Brahms symphonic intermezzo.
- Te Deums; six psalms; twenty anthems; three German operas; one English opera; thirty-nine Italian operas; two Italian serenatas, two English serenatas; one Italian intermezzo, "Terpsichore"; four odes; twenty-four chamber duets; ninety-four cantatas; seven French songs; thirty-three concertos; nineteen English songs; sixteen Italian airs; twenty-four sonatas. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
- Intermezzo is a sublingual, smaller-dose formulation of zolpidem. Tracey Marks, M.D.: Don't Sleep and Drive: How to Avoid Complex Sleep Behaviors
- Mango sorbet was the intermezzo; a heart shaped chocolate garnish adding a second Valentines note to the meal. Karen Dalton-Beninato: For Valentine's Romance, New Orleans Bistro Delivers
- It is worth remembering that intermezzos were never really supposed to contain the musical highlights of an evening.
