character piece

American  

noun

Music.

1. a short, simple piece, usually for piano, of a type developed chiefly during the 19th century, often of a descriptive or seemingly improvisatory character.

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character piece

Chinese director Zhang Lu’s contemporary drama “The Shadowless Tower” is a gently enigmatic character piece that resists telling you too much about its characters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2024

This is not a deep character piece but rather a group project, one in which we barely know the other members of the team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

"It's more effective as a jukebox musical than a character piece, but the central performance and those amazing songs pull it all together," wrote The Wrap's Elizabeth Weitzman.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2021

A supremely measured character piece that has steadily improved as its central tragedy has materialised.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019

A refreshing thing in its way, a little showy, as everything that related to her was, and inclined to arouse jealousy in those not so liberally endowed by life, but fine as a character piece.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore