Lighter works include chansons, songs in Neapolitan dialect villanellas, and some important early examples of the instrumental ricercar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

The centerpiece of the Cantata (1952) is a ricercar to a fifteenth-century "Sacred History" entitled "To-morrow shall be my dancing day.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference

Tellingly, the elegance seems equally as at home in the decorative filigree of the sonata as in the expansiveness of the six-voice ricercar.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

In the numerous instrumental and secular vocal forms which were developed at this time and later (ricercar, canzone, tiento, toccata, præambulum, capriccio, chanson, strambotto, madrigal), original melodies were often substituted for a cantus flrmus taken from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

The entire work, therefore, is a ricercar in the original, literal sense of the word. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dream of Mind and Machine] Reference