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capriccio

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ca·pric·cio  (k-prch, -ch-)
n. pl. ca·pric·cios
1. Music An instrumental work with an improvisatory style and a free form.
2. A prank; a caper.
3. A whim.
[Italian; see caprice.]
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Noun1.capriccio - an instrumental composition that doesn't adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation
musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"


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In Baselitz's aesthetics, then, a personally tailored Africa functions as a kind of stabilizing basso continuo for the iconoclastic capriccios of Western artistic freedom.
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The Renaissance is at the heart of this study, but later chapters also examine the evolution of drawing practice in Rembrandt, in the eighteenth-century capriccio (Hogarth, Piranesi, the Tiepolo, and Goya), and, as an epilogue, in Picasso.
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Mr. B Goes to Washington by Barnes, Clive / Dance Magazine
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