capriccio

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Finally, Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos appeared and gave the downbeat, and the perplexed audience settled down to the first U.S. performance of Ferruccio Busoni's "theatrical capriccio," Harlequin.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the book is a mere capriccio, there can be no possible objection taken to it on this score.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various

His capriccio on the departure of a friend, with its differently labelled parts, comes distinctly under the above denomination.

From Masters of French Music by Hervey, Arthur

An adagio may set a gouty father to sleep, and a capriccio may operate successfully on the nerves of a valetudinary mother.

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Lawrence, Robert Means

He trembled lest he should have been the plaything of a whim, for he had heard what a capriccio might mean in an Italian.

From Albert Savarus by Marriage, Ellen