scherzo

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A playful, humorous movement, commonly in 3-4 measure, which often takes the place of the old minuet and trio in a sonata or a symphony.

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Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva. Anthony Burgess

Dickinson (1995), p. 154 Holst's final composition, the orchestral scherzo movement of a projected symphony, contains features characteristic of much of Holst's earlier music—"a summing up of Holst's orchestral art", according to Short. Source: Internet

Following the trio, the second occurrence of the scherzo, unlike the first, plays through without any repetition, after which there is a brief reprise of the trio, and the movement ends with an abrupt coda. Source: Internet

Prestissimo (C minor, concluding in C major) Unlike the other piano trios in this opus, the third trio does not have a scherzo as its third movement but a minuet instead. Source: Internet

The central movement (of three) is a highly ingenious set of variations, which are grouped to suggest the characters of slow movement and scherzo. Source: Internet

The scherzo and slow movement, with their alternation of melodies, are models for Bruckner's spacious middle movements, while the finale with a grand culminating hymn is a feature of almost every Bruckner symphony. Source: Internet

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