capriccio
- n an instrumental composition that doesn't adhere to rules for any specific musical form and is played with improvisation
- Canaletto (1697-1768) developed the vedute, or picture-postcard views, and the capriccio, or fantasy.
- He not only included every kind of dance movement previously used (saraband, gigue, minuet) but also introduced some that had not been: capriccio, rondeau and scherzo.
- There are traces of Elie Nadelman, Odilon Redon, Watteau, Hieronymus Bosch and an over-the-top capriccio of swimmers in some celestial spa titled Natatorium Undine, 1927.