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divertimento

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Divertimento (noun) means a musical work made up of several brief movements, a form that composers began writing in the 1700s.

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A musical work made up of several brief movements, a form that composers began writing in the 1700s.
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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian, where it came from divertire ("to amuse, to entertain"), which itself goes back to Latin dīvertere.

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"divertimento" (noun) means a musical work made up of several brief movements, a form that composers began writing in the 1700s.
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Other words for "divertimento" include serenade.

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