CAPRICCIO • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Capriccio

... Mendelssohn's "Meerstille und Glueckliche Fahrt" and "Capriccio Brillante," with William Scharfenberg as soloist, given by the Philharmonic Society, ...

— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee

... chiefly from his works and from those of his successors. Although there need be no arbitrary limit to the alternation of the chief part with the subsidiary portions—in fact, Beethoven's humorous Rondo Capriccio, On a Lost Farthing has as many as eleven sections—it gradually became conventional for the form to consist of five parts: a first presentation and two repetitions of the main theme together with two contrasting portions called Episodes, to which a free Coda was ...

— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding