Usually means: Elaborate contrapuntal composition, early fugue.
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  1. ricercar: Merriam-Webster
  2. ricercar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ricercar: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ricercar: Wiktionary
  5. ricercar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. ricercar: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. ricercar: Dictionary.com
  8. Ricercar (record label), Ricercar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. RICERCAR: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  10. Ricercar: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ricercar: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  An instrumental musical composition, fugal in style but in a more serious character and with longer notes.

Similar:
ricercare, ricercata, parlando, recitatif, requinto, recit, recitativo, ritornelle, recitative, ritornell, more...

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chromatic ricercar, canonic ricercar, fugal ricercar, double ricercar, triple ricercar, mirror ricercar, retrograde ricercar, more...

Adjectives:
part, imitative, second, italian, first, early, century, monothematic, voice, acrostic

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Similar:
ricercare, ricercata, parlando, recitatif, requinto, recit, recitativo, ritornelle, recitative, ritornell, more...

Types:
chromatic ricercar, canonic ricercar, fugal ricercar, double ricercar, triple ricercar, mirror ricercar, retrograde ricercar, more...

Adjectives:
part, imitative, second, italian, first, early, century, monothematic, voice, acrostic



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