Interlude - Interlude

Japanese: 間奏曲 - かんそうきょく

Music inserted into a larger piece of music. There are various forms in the history of European music. (1) In church music, it is called interludium, and refers to short organ pieces played between verses of hymns or psalms. (2) In 16th-century Italy, it is called intermezzo, act-tune, and other entertaining music or small-scale drama inserted between secular plays, especially tragedies, as interludes. It was held independently of the plot, and included solo and choral performances as well as dances with instrumental accompaniment. This encouraged the members of the Camerata to create operas, and these interludes were also carried over to opera. It was performed as a semi-independent story within an opera, and its scale gradually expanded, until in the first half of the 18th century, the main part of the play branched off into opera seria, and the play within the play branched off into opera buffa. (3) A piece of music that connects the acts of a play or opera, usually an instrumental piece. From the second half of the 17th century onwards, it was also called intermezzo, act-tune, etc. The intermezzo from Schubert's "Rosamunde" is well known. (4) Character pieces with lyrical characters from the 19th century onwards. Brahms' work is famous.

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Japanese:

大きな楽曲中に挿入された音楽。ヨーロッパ音楽史上各種の形態がある。（１）教会音楽では特にインテルルディウムinterludiumの名で，賛歌や詩編の詩句の間に奏される短いオルガン曲をいう。（２）主に16世紀イタリアにおいて，世俗的演劇，特に悲劇の幕間に挿入された娯楽的な音楽ないし小規模な劇。インテルメディウムintermediumと呼ばれる。筋立てとは無関係に催され，独唱や合唱のほか器楽伴奏の舞踊も演じられた。これはカメラータのメンバーによるオペラの創造を促し，こうした幕間劇はオペラにも引き継がれる。オペラの劇中劇として半ば独立した筋をもって演じられ，その規模も次第に拡大，やがて18世紀前半には劇の主要部分がオペラ・セリアへ，劇中劇がオペラ・ブッファへと分岐した。（３）劇やオペラの各幕をつなぐ曲で，通常は器楽曲。17世紀後半以降，インテルメッツォintermezzo，アクト・チューンact-tuneなどの名でも呼ばれた。シューベルトの《ロザムンデ》の間奏曲などが知られる。（４）19世紀ロマン派以降の抒情的な性格小品（キャラクター・ピース）。ブラームスの作品が著名。

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