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PRONUNCIATION OF RICERCAR

ricercar  [ˈriːtʃəˌkɑː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RICERCAR

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Ricercar is a noun.
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WHAT DOES RICERCAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ricercar

A ricercar is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition. The term means to search out, and many ricercars serve a preludial function to "search out" the key or mode of a following piece. A ricercar may explore the permutations of a given motif, and in that regard may follow the piece used as illustration. For example, "Ricercar sopra Benedictus" would develop motives from a motet titled "Benedictus." The term is also used to designate an etude or study that explores a technical device in playing an instrument, or singing. In its most common contemporary usage, it refers to an early kind of fugue, particularly one of a serious character in which the subject uses long note values. However the term has a considerably more varied historical usage. Bach's six part Ricercar subject from his Musical Offering.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RICERCAR


advocaat
ˈædvəʊˌkɑː
autocar
ˈɔːtəʊˌkɑː
Bhaskar
ˈbʌsˌkɑː
boxcar
ˈbɒksˌkɑː
calcar
ˈkælˌkɑː
cyclecar
ˈsaɪkəlˌkɑː
gyrocar
ˈdʒaɪrəʊˌkɑː
hoppercar
ˈhɒpəˌkɑː
Issachar
ˈɪsəˌkɑː
microcar
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌkɑː
minicar
ˈmɪnɪˌkɑː
motorcar
ˈməʊtəˌkɑː
pedalcar
ˈpedlˌkɑː
railcar
ˈreɪlˌkɑː
rent-a-car
ˈrentəˌkɑː
sidecar
ˈsaɪdˌkɑː
streetcar
ˈstriːtˌkɑː
supercar
ˈsuːpəˌkɑː
tramcar
ˈtræmˌkɑː
turbocar
ˈtɜːbəʊˌkɑː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RICERCAR

rice
rice bowl
rice cake
rice grass
rice growing
rice paddy
rice paper
rice pudding
rice vinegar
rice wine
rice-growing
rice-paper plant
ricebird
ricefield
ricer
ricercare
ricercari
ricey
rich
rich rhyme

WORDS THAT END LIKE RICERCAR

cable car
car
chauffeur-driven car
circar
classic car
Democratic Republic of Madagascar
hire car
in-car
kit car
Madagascar
oscar
police car
race car
rental car
scar
sircar
sports car
stock-car
trocar
vicar

Synonyms and antonyms of ricercar in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «ricercar» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

ricercar
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ricercar
570 millions of speakers

English

ricercar
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ricercar
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ricercar
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Ричеркар
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ricercar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ricercar
260 millions of speakers

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ricercar
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ricercar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ricercar
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

リチェルカーレ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Ricercar는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ricercar
85 millions of speakers
vi

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ricercar
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ricercar
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रिचकारार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ricercar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Ricercar
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Ricercar
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

річеркар
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Ricercar
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ricercar
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Ricercar
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Ricercar
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

RICERCAR
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ricercar

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RICERCAR»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RICERCAR»

Discover the use of ricercar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ricercar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ensemble Ricercars: Ensemble Ricercars
Spacious opening expositions are a hallmark of Padovano's style.59 For instance , in Ricercar [11] the fourth voice part does not make its initial entry with theme A until measure 14. The spaciousness here is not caused so much by the length of  ...
Milton A. Swenson, 1978
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Anthology of Musical Forms -- Structure & Style: The Study ...
This procedure explains the origin of one of the early types of the ricercar. Ricercar or ricercare is derived from the Italian ricercare, "to search;" hence the connotation of a "study," in the sense of an etude or of a "learned" form. The title first ...
Stein, Leon
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The Thematic Catalogue of the Musical Works of Johann Pachelbel
l-2Q[ut supra] CMS(i)137/138 GT(i)32 "Ricercar in c" KOW(i)6 "Ricercare" D-B Mus. MS 30070 [(l)-(2), in D minor] D-Bhnt [ ] [listed in "Katalog ...", p.774: " Ricercata a 4"] RCM,40 "Ricercare" SCO "Ricercar" SO(1)48 "Ricercar" SO(l)|d], p .
Jean M. Perreault, Donna K. Fitch, 2004
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Bach: Essays on His Life and Music
If we take the norm of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ricercar as a point of comparison — as Spitta undoubtedly does17 — it seems entirely plausible to assign the name to the Ricercar a 6 and its patently motet-like characteristics, ...
Christoph Wolff, 1991
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The Harvard Dictionary of Music
In the 17th century, ricercars could appear in sets with a preceding *toccata and following *canzona, or with just a toccata, anticipating the later prelude and fugue . I. The homophonic ricercar. The earliest ricercars of the homophonic rhapsodic  ...
Don Michael Randel, 2003
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The History of Keyboard Music to 1700
He concludes (but not with complete justification) that Praetorius saw the chief difference between them as the number of thematic ideas employed, that the fantasia used several ideas and the ricercar only one. Seiffert declares that this ...
Willi Apel, 1997
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Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Ricercar a. Imitative instrumental ricercar (after 1540) 1) The ricercar is a contrapuntal piece in motet style which probably developed out of the carmina and other early instrumental pieces. The earliest ensemble compositions called " ricercar" ...
Harold Gleason, Warren Becker, Catherine Gleason, 1988
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Ricercari d'intavolatura d'organo: 1567
Ricercar. del. quarto. tuono. Mode. Hypophrygian (transposed) M. 1, upper staff, clef G2/5; lower staff, clefs F3/8 and C5/8 (for the lower staff the 1605 edition uses a seven-line staff with F2/7 and C4/7 clefs); note 2, stem reversed. M. 17, upper ...
John Morehen, 2000
9
Music History During the Renaissance Period, 1520-1550: A ...
Imitative keyboard music a) At the beginning of the sixteenth century the evolution of instrumental motets or chansons for keyboard instruments began ApeH, l 65 (1) These compositions appeared under the names of ricercar, canzona, tien- to ...
Blanche Gangwere, 2004
10
The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Ricercar 561 Other hit shows included Otello ( 1 845), a parody on Shakespeare. Ricercar, ricercare [fr. It. ricercare, to seek; also It. ricercata; Fr. recherche; Ger. Ricercar; Sp. recer- cario, recercada]. An instrumental composition of the 16th and ...
Don Michael Randel, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RICERCAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ricercar is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ricercar Charms BEMF Crowd
Not all the 2015 BEMF concerts swung for the fences. One that did not was the Ricercar Consort's “Rameau in Berlin,” in Jordan Hall late Friday afternoon. «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
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Rameau, ein Berliner
Gathering in Jordan Hall Friday at 5pm, we found ourselves soon transported with Ricercar Consort and soprano Céline Scheen, to a Berlin where Rameau ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
3
Boston Ballet finds many colors in 'Shades of Sound'
The four sections are set to Webern's “Symphony,” “Five Pieces,” “Concerto,” and “Ricercata,” his arrangement of the “Ricercar a 6” from Bach's “A Musical ... «Boston Globe, Mar 15»
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Sous le charme de la mort, vis heureux !
Dans cet enregistrement (Ricercar), le Chœur de Chambre de Namur déploie un style vocal issu de l'âme d'un organiste accompli, usant des voix de manière à ... «Forum Opéra, Mar 15»
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Orgues pour orgues. Bernard Foccroulle entre Matthias Weckmann …
Tout d'abord, un double disque paru chez Ricercar/Outhere regroupant l'intégrale de l'oeuvre d'orgue de Matthias Weckmann (1616-1674) sur trois instruments ... «AgoraVox, Jan 15»
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Philippe Pierlot entre Bach et Haendel
Et c'est aussi un beau rendez-vous pour le Ricercar Consort qui propose une nouvelle interprétation de l'Offrande musicale du musicien allemand. Pour le ... «lavenir.net, Jan 15»
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Alles drin, was man braucht: Weihnachten kann kommen
Ein passendes Weihnachtsgeschenk - für einen selbst oder andere: In einer sieben Tonträger fassenden Box hat Ricercar ein Füllhorn barocker Meisterwerke ... «klassik.com, Nov 14»
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Pianist Sean Chen shows his talent, and his rough edges, in concert …
A Bach work, Adagio, BWV 968, followed by the three-part Ricercar from the “Musical Offering,” put together as a sort of prelude and fugue, got more mixed ... «Washington Post, Oct 14»
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Au sérail du Turc généreux
Sur le plan vocal, l'équipe réunie plus de vingt ans après la première version Ricercar possède de nombreux atouts, à commencer par le magnifique Saint-Phar ... «Forum Opéra, Oct 14»
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EIF reviews
On Wednesday, Philippe Pierlot and his Ricercar Consort plonked us right in the middle of the Thirty Years War where, in central Germany - and notably in ... «Herald Scotland, Aug 14»

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