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A contrapuntal instrumental composition analogous to the motet in vocal music usually consisting in the 16th century of a series of fugal expositions on different subjects and in the 17th century developing into the true fugue on a single subject.

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  • Lighter works include chansons, songs in Neapolitan dialect villanellas, and some important early examples of the instrumental ricercar.
  • The centerpiece of the Cantata (1952) is a ricercar to a fifteenth-century "Sacred History" entitled "To-morrow shall be my dancing day."
  • In a contrapuntal work such as a fugue (or ricercar), the leading phrase226 that sets the pattern of movement for the other voices was called the Dux.
  • Tellingly, the elegance seems equally as at home in the decorative filigree of the sonata as in the expansiveness of the six-voice ricercar.
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