Crossword-Solution: CAPRICCI 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

And when the Maelstrom of Capricci whirled and foamed, and tore ear and sense through every variety of sound, the audience simultaneously recognised the hand of Pisani.

Only the crudest works of plastic art, capricci and arabesques, have no intellectual content; and even these are good in so far as they convey the playfulness of fancy.

Organ and orchestra of divers instruments were allowed the same liberty of improvising on the given theme, embroidering these with fanciful _capricci_, and indulging their own taste in symphonies connected with the main structure by slight and artificial links.

Famous are his variations on the tune "God Save the King," his "Studies," his twenty variations on "Il Carnevale di Venezia," and the concert allegro "Perpetual Motion." The celebrated twenty-four violin capricci, written early in Paganini's career, have been rendered familiar by their transcriptions to the pianoforte by Schumann and Liszt.

What happy effects, what surprises, what unforeseen discoveries, when the varnish is removed from the plate! A bit of good luck and of inspiration often does more than a methodical rule, whether we are engaged on subjects of our own invention,--_capricci_, as the Italians call them,--or whether we are drawing from nature directly on the copper.