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Definition of Ricercar
1. Noun. An instrumental musical composition, fugal in style but in a more serious character and with longer notes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ricercar
1. an instrumental composition [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ricercar
Literary usage of Ricercar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of Organ Music by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1905)
"But there arose early in the fifteenth century a form of music called "ricercar" (sought
out), in which every kind of contrapuntal effect known to _. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"Four more oblong folio sheet« seem to have been afterwards added, containing the
ricercar à 6 and 2 Canons, and lastly ¡ sheets containing the Sonatas and I ..."
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