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interlude

  (ĭn'tər-lūd') pronunciation
n.
  1. An intervening episode, feature, or period of time: “Kerensky has a place in history, of a brief interlude between despotisms” (William Safire).
    1. A short farcical entertainment performed between the acts of a medieval mystery or morality play.
    2. A 16th-century genre of comedy derived from this.
    3. An entertainment between the acts of a play.
  2. Music. A short piece inserted between the parts of a longer composition.

[Middle English enterlude, a dramatic entertainment, from Old French entrelude, from Medieval Latin interlūdium : Latin inter-, inter- + Latin lūdus, play.]


 
 
Antonyms: interlude

n

Definition: pause, break
Antonyms: continuation


 

Something played or sung between the main parts of a larger work, such as an opera. In instrumental music, modulating interludes may provide a transition from the key of one movement or section to that of the next.



 

interlude, a short play, of a kind believed to have been performed by small companies of professional actors in the intervals of banquets and other entertainments before the emergence of the London theatres. This rather loose category includes several types of play that are regarded as transitional between the morality play and Elizabethan comedy: some resemble the morality plays in didactic intent and are sometimes called ‘moral interludes’, while others are closer to farce. Interludes flourished in England from the end of the 15th century to the late 16th century. An early example is Henry Medwall's Fulgens and Lucres (1497). The foremost author of interludes was John Heywood, who wrote The Play of the Weather (1533) among other works.

 
development in the late 15th cent. of the English medieval morality play. Played between the acts of a long play, the interlude, treating intellectual rather than moral topics, often contained elements of satire or farce. The form developed in Italy as the intermedio and intermezzo, in France as the entremet or intermede and as the entrée, which involved only dance. In Spain the entremés became an independent form as in the work of Cervantes.

Bibliography

See E. K. Chambers, The Medieval Stage (1903); V. F. Hopper and G. B. Lahey, ed., Medieval Mysteries, Moralities and Interludes (1962).


 
Music: Interlude

Short music used to bridge the acts of a play, or the verses of a hymn.

 
Wikipedia: interlude (disambiguation)

An interlude ("between play") is:

  • In music/theatre, as a separate creation/movement (see also overview of the different meanings of interlude in the Entr'acte article):
  • In music, as part of a single movement:
    • a section in a movement of a musical piece, see: Bridge or Break.
  • General:
    • a period of time between or interrupting a larger one.

Interlude can refer to:


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Translations: Translations for: Interlude

Dansk (Danish)
n. - mellemspil, pause, afbrydelse

Nederlands (Dutch)
intermezzo, tussenbedrijf, onderbreking

Français (French)
n. - (Cin, Théât, Mus) entracte, (Théât) intermède, (Mus) interlude, intervalle (entre)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Pause, Intermezzo, Zwischenspiel

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - διάλειμμα, παύση μεταξύ πράξεων θεατρικού έργου, ιντερμέτζο, (μουσ., μτφ.) ιντερλούδιο, εμβόλιμο κομμάτι

Italiano (Italian)
intervallo, intermezzo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - interlúdio (m)

Русский (Russian)
антракт, промежуточный эпизод, прерывать действие пьесы промежуточным эпизодом

Español (Spanish)
n. - descanso, intermedio, intervalo, interludio

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - mellanspel (äv. bildl.), intervall, (medeltida) mellanaktsspel, interludium (mus.)

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
幕间, 插曲, 幕间时间

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 幕間, 插曲, 幕間時間

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 짬, 간주곡, 막간[극]

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 合間, 幕間, 幕間劇, 間奏曲, 幕間の演芸

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) فصل إضافي ( يتخلل فصول المسرحيه) , لحن إضافي, فترة فاصله‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮הפוגה, הפסקה, נעימת ביניים, קטע-ביניים משעשע‬


 
 

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