"The musical term ""scherzo"" takes its name from the Italian word for what?"
Scherzo to the same-root verb: scherzare ("to joke". "to jest"; "to play"). More rarely the similar meaning word "badinerie" (also spelled "battinerie"; from French "jesting") has been used. Sometimes the word "scherzando" ("joking") is used in musical notation to indicate that a passage should be executed in a playful manner. An early use of the word "scherzo" in music is in light-hearted madrigals of the early baroque period, which were often called "scherzi musicali", for example: Later, composers applied the term "scherzo", and sometimes "badinerie" to certain instrumental works in fast tempos in duple meter time signature, for example: The scherzo,
Death Takes a Holiday (musical) Death Takes a Holiday (musical) Death Takes a Holiday is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan. The story is adapted from the 1924 Italian play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, which was adapted in English for Broadway in 1929 by Walter Ferris. That play was made into a 1934 film of the same name starring Fredric March, which was remade in 1998 as "Meet Joe Black", starring Brad Pitt. The story of the musical is about lonely Death, who takes the form of a handsome young