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ricercare
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ricercare [ˌriːtʃəˈkɑːreɪ], ricercar [ˈriːtʃəˌkɑː]
n pl -cari [-ˈkɑːriː], -cars (in music of the 16th and 17th centuries)
1. (Music / Classical Music) an elaborate polyphonic composition making extensive use of contrapuntal imitation and usually very slow in tempo
2. (Music / Classical Music) an instructive composition to illustrate instrumental technique; étude.
[Italian, literally: to seek again]


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Io dopo vengo considerando, che l'animo del solitario diviene o languido, e pigro, non havendo chi lo stuzzichi col ricercar la sua dottrina, e col disputare.
Certainly a lesson in the formal rules of composition, its labyrinthine ricercars (a type of baroque composition), canons and fugues were made clearer by Manze's outline explanations ( a sort of musicology-lite.
Performed before and below a video projection that includes Kentridge's charcoal drawings and stock footage, Ulisse features seven singers, seven musicians from Belgium's Ricercar Consort (seated in a semicircle onstage, as if in an anatomy theater), and thirteen wooden puppets designed by Kentridge and operated by his longtime collaborators, the Cape Town-based Handspring Puppet Company.
 
 
 
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