英语词汇“intermezzo”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

intermezzo

释义

‖ intermezzo|ɪntəˈmɛdzəʊ, -mɛtsəʊ|
Pl. -i |-i|, -os |-əʊz|. Also 9 intermez.
[It. intermezzo, more popular form of intermedio: see intermede. With the form intermez, cf. obs. F. intermèze, -mèse (16th c. in Littré), ad. the Italian word.]
1. a. A short dramatic, musical, or other performance, of a light and pleasing character, introduced between the acts of a drama or opera (or, subsequently, in the latter half of the 18th c., performed independently, and merging in the Opera Buffa). b. A short movement serving as a connecting link between the main divisions of a large musical work, instrumental or vocal; sometimes used for an independent piece of similar character.
1771[see bad a. 1 c]. [1811Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3), Intermezzi (Ital.), the name given by the Italians to interludes, or detached dances, introduced between the acts of an opera.]1834Beckford Italy II. 213 (Stanf.) The entertainment ended with a sort of intermez.1840Penny Cycl. XVI. 441/2 s.v. Opera, In July, 1703, Italian intermezzi, or ‘interludes and musical entertainments of singing and dancing’, were performed at York Buildings.1880W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 8 Almost all the earlier Italian plays were relieved by Intermezzi.1883Pall Mall G. 12 Oct. 4/1 The composer's predilection for instrumental music has shown itself in the so-called intermezzos which are freely interspersed through the three sections.
2. transf. An interval; an ‘episode’.
1851Carlyle Sterling iii. iv. (1872) 198 A little intermezzo of ramble was not unadvisable.1875N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 264 The purgatorial intermezzo of the Catholic church.1897Q. Rev. Oct. 356 Impatient, bewildered, expectant in an atmosphere of intermezzo.

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