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passagework

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pas·sage·work  (psj-wûrk)
n.
1. A portion of a musical composition that permits a performer to make a display of technique, especially in the rapid execution of scales and arpeggios, and that has little thematic or structural importance to the whole: The concerto contained brilliant passagework for the soloist.
2. A musician's performance of this portion of a composition: her virtuosic passagework.
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Imogen Cooper's two appearances as soloist also lacked sparkle, and with little communication between her and the orchestra, the two concertos lost the necessary drive and vitality, instead merging into a rather homogeneous series of scales and passagework.
Cooper fails to sparkle by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
The artists explain that they do not use a written script for a performance, preferring instead to understand the event as a "temporal passagework.
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As I was learning the first piece in Kreisleriana, I found the rapid passagework in the right hand to be a particular challenge.
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