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  1. ricercarnoun

    An instrumental musical composition, fugal in style but in a more serious character and with longer notes.

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  1. Ricercar

    A ricercar is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition. The term means to search out, and many ricercars serve a preludial function to "search out" the key or mode of a following piece. A ricercar may explore the permutations of a given motif, and in that regard may follow the piece used as illustration. For example, "Ricercar sopra Benedictus" would develop motives from a motet titled "Benedictus." The term is also used to designate an etude or study that explores a technical device in playing an instrument, or singing. In its most common contemporary usage, it refers to an early kind of fugue, particularly one of a serious character in which the subject uses long note values. However the term has a considerably more varied historical usage.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ricercar in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ricercar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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