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piece, with occasional runs and passagework, not unlike a toccata, found from the late fifteenth to the mid-sixteenth century, after which time this type of piece came to be called a toccata; and from the second half of the sixteenth century onward, a sectional work in which each section begins
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In the sixteenth century, the word ricercar could refer to several types of compositions. Terminology was flexible, even lax then: whether a composer called an instrumental piece a
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A performing edition of Gabrielli's 7 Ricercari for Violoncello Solo, with an historical investigation and recommendations for performance
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type, was to prove the more important historically, and eventually developed into the fugue.
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or study that explores a technical device in playing an instrument, or singing.
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of a following piece. A ricercar may explore the permutations of a given
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In its most common contemporary usage, it refers to an early kind of
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Examples of both types of ricercars can be found in the works of
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The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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Ricercari
Rice burner
/ˌrərˈkɑːr/
REE-chər-KAR
[ritʃerˈkar]
/ˌrərˈkɑːr/
REE-chər-KAR-ay
[ritʃerˈkaːre]
Renaissance
Baroque
preludial
key
mode
motif
etude
fugue
note values
harpsichord
Bach
The Musical Offering
Domenico Gabrielli
cello

The Musical Offering
toccata
canzona
fantasia
homophonic
imitatively
variation form

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