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Definition of Ricercars
1. ricercar [n] - See also: ricercar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ricercars
Literary usage of Ricercars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"... all dictionaries *w. super Magnificat' (Munich, 1686), Mattheson mentions
toccatas, canzonas, ricercars, and batailles of his composition for the organ. ..."
2. The Maecenas and the Madrigalist: Patrons, Patronage, and the Origins of the by Anthony M. Cummings (2004)
"... Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Istituto per la Musica (Milan: G. Ricordi 8c C.
spa, 1995). 21. See Anthony Newcomb, ed., The ricercars of the ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (1880)
"... ricercars, and ba- tailles of his composition for the organ. In 1673 he threw
up his post and went to Vienna, where he subsisted by giving lessons at ..."
4. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Story of the Development of a Great Personality by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1909)
"... is more essentially musical than either of the fugues or ricercars. But in
this case it is quite obvious that Bach was not trying to put an extemporised ..."
5. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Story of the Development of a Great Personality by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1909)
"... violin, and continuo) which is comprised in " Das Musikalische Opfer" is more
essentially musical than either of the fugues or ricercars. ..."
6. Die instrumental-stücke des"orfeo" und die venetianischen Opern-sinfonien by Alfred Heuss (1903)
"Die ricercars waren in erster Linie Kompositionen für ... 4) Vergleiche die von
Riemann herausgegebenen ricercars in »Alte Kammermusik« ..."
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