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A scherzo is a piece of music — often one part of a longer work for many instruments — that should feel playful and move at a fast speed. In Italian the word means “joke,” and you can still hear that joke in the music: it bounces; it is not a slow, heavy piece. From Beethoven’s time on, composers often wrote a scherzo in the place where older music had a minuet (a polite dance in three beats). You will meet the word on concert programmes more than in street talk. Though actually, a scherzo is not always “happy” in a simple smiling way; some sound dark, or like a bitter joke. The first idea is still play, not a sad slow song.
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組成Borrowed from Italian scherzo, “joke, play,” from scherzare, “to joke.” That came from an old Lombardic word for jumping about and having fun, then from a Proto-Germanic verb “to hop, jump,” and further back from a very old root meaning “to dance, jump.”
同家族的字
- scherzandothe music direction: play in that joking, light way
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
scherzonoun/ˈskɛətsəʊ/
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA piece of music or a movement from a larger piece such as a symphony; especially, a piece of music played in a playful manner.
- At seven Val knocked – three shorts and one long, out of the scherzo of Beethoven’s Fifth – and I rushed to open.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。