Immediately before the score for a passage of this type, its composer wrote a Latin phrase translating as "Harmonic Labyrinth: Easy to Enter, Difficult to Escape."
Immediately before the score for a passage of this type, its composer wrote a Latin phrase translating as "Harmonic Labyrinth: Easy to Enter, Difficult to Escape." An F-sharp minor piece of this name opens Johannes Brahms's Eight Pieces, in which these pieces are paired with intermezzos. Pietro Locatelli's opus 3 features twelve concerti, the first and third movements of each of which contains a passage known by this name. The horns introduce a "sighing theme" on which the orchestra plays variations in the second movement Variazioni of a piece named forthis form. That example of this kind of piece is a work for solo violin and orchestra and features first and third movement alboradas that represent the dawn, and ends with cymbals and castanets energetically playing the Fandango Asturiano. For 10 points, give this term for pieces whose name reflects the composer's whims, an example of which is Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Espagnol."
Immediately before the score for a passage of this type, its composer wrote a Latin phrase translating as "Harmonic Labyrinth: Easy to Enter, Difficult to Escape."
caprices [or capriccios]