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Definition of Ritornellos
1. ritornello [n] - See also: ritornello
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ritornellos
Literary usage of Ritornellos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1905)
"Terzett in C, and Finale in E minor and major, remarkable for its use of the
trombones. Extensive and good use is made of ritornellos before and after the ..."
2. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"Haydn composed accompaniments for a volume of Scottish songs for Napier, a London
publisher, without ritornellos or violoncello; he wrote as Beethoven wrote ..."
3. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"Haydn composed accompaniments for a volume of Scottish songs for Napier, a London
publisher, without ritornellos or violoncello; he wrote as Beethoven wrote ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... the aria style, when he had not only purged it of what had become the stereotyped
ideas of ritornellos and vocal flourishes, but animated it by the new ..."
5. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1895)
"We must bear in mind that these opening and middle symphonies, with the ritornellos,
are one of the great features of difference between the two schools of ..."
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