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Scherzo

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Scherzo has the following meanings. A musical form whose name means “joke” or “humor” in Italian. As a musical form, a scherzo is a humorous, lively triple-meter piece developed in the Baroque period. In music history, it began to be used in middle movements of symphonies and chamber works from the 1780s. Characteristics of scherzos include the following. 3/4 time and a lively tempo Written in A-B-A 3-part form or compound 3-part form. The middle trio uses a melody contrasting with the musical ideas before and after. The scherzo was adopted and developed by Franz Joseph Haydn, Beethoven, and others. Beethoven's scherzos are faster than Haydn's, and some pieces make their 3-beat meter unrecognizable. Chopin and Brahms also wrote scherzos as independent piano pieces.

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  • HaydnComputed lexical cosine similarity 0.103 · shared title, text, tags and references
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