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Divertissement

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During the 17th and 18th century, the term implied incidental aspects of an entertainment (usually involving singing and dancing) that might be inserted in an opera or
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The term is also sometimes used for a ballet suite of loosely connected dances. One 20th-century example is
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or other stage performance. In the operas produced by the
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for bassoon and string quintet (or orchestra, 1942)
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divertimento
ballet
Académie Royale de Musique
tragédies lyriques
comédies lyriques
Charles Gounod
Faust
Delibes
Coppélia
intermèdes
Jacques Ibert
Jean Françaix
his compositions
Entr'acte
Kennedy, Michael
ISBN
0-19-861459-4
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0-19-869164-5
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Ballet
Company
Glossary
History
Music
Timeline
Aplomb
Arabesque

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