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cassation

An 18th-century musical term, similar to divertimento and serenade, for a work in several movements suitable for open-air performance. The origin of the word is uncertain.



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Bulgaria's Supreme Court of Cassations on Tuesday suspended Staviski's original 2 1/2-year sentence.
The beginnings of the deliberate, conscious cultivation and stage performance of folk song and dance can be traced right back to what where known as the cassations,
The composer's chamber music output, however, represents the whole range of forms--sonatas, cassations, divertimenti, notturni, dances like minuets, ecossoises, landlers--in different combinations from string duos and trios to quintets and sextets.
 
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