Usually means: Playful, light, joking musical style.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word scherzando:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. scherzando: Merriam-Webster
  2. scherzando: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scherzando: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scherzando: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scherzando: Wordnik
  6. scherzando: Wiktionary
  7. scherzando: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. scherzando: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. scherzando: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. scherzando: Dictionary.com
  11. Scherzando: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Scherzando: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. scherzando: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Scherzando: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. scherzando: FreeDictionary.org
  16. scherzando: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scherzando)

▸ adverb:  (music) In a playful or sportive manner.
▸ noun:  (music) A piece of music to be played in a playful or sportive manner.

Similar:
playfully, jocosely, jokefully, facetiously, jokingly, kiddingly, playingly, jocularly, frolicsomely, sportively, more...

Opposite:
serioso, grave, solemn



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Similar:
playfully, jocosely, jokefully, facetiously, jokingly, kiddingly, playingly, jocularly, frolicsomely, sportively, more...

Opposite:
serioso, grave, solemn



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