scherzi
- plural of scherzo.
Example Sentences
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These scherzi, however, brought him more note than profit, and soon afterwards he returned to Martinique.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Notwithstanding the grandeur and beauty of the grave, the power and passion of the scherzo, this Sonata in B flat minor is not more a sonata than it is a sequence of ballades and scherzi.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James
She could think of no tunes but dances—andantes turned scherzi, the Handelian largo became a Castilian tango.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
The valses are the most objective of the Chopin works, and in few of them is there more than a hint of the sullen, Sargasson seas of the nocturnes and scherzi.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James
He write the scherzi, the ballades, the études?—you make me enraged.
From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James
