Associations to the word «Divertimento»

Wiktionary

DIVERTIMENTO, noun. (music) a composition that has many short movements, a style that composers started to use in the Eighteenth Century.

Dictionary definition

DIVERTIMENTO, noun. A musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form.

Wise words

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