DDEX Data Dictionary, 19-12-03

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Intro

Ricercar

A late Renaissance and early Baroque instrumental composition that explores the permutations of a given motif and 'searches out' the key or mode of a following piece of music. It is an early kind of fugue, of a serious character and featuring a subject with long note lengths. Another kind of Ricercar, referred to as such until the mid-16th century, is a homophonic piece of music similar to a toccata that later came to simply be called a toccata.

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Belongs to AVS	avs:Form	The form of music.

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