Crossword-Solution: GIOCOSO 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Opus 25 contains four characteristic pieces,--a "Dance" full of dance-rapture, a most original "Impromptu," and a "Rondo Giocoso," which is just the kind of brilliantly witty scherzo whose infrequency in American music is so lamentable and so surprising.

The melodic formation is unusual in that the latter phrase is an inversion of the first, _e.g._ [Music] [Footnote 259: The only slight exception is the third movement of the Fourth Symphony which, being marked Allegro giocoso, partakes somewhat of the nature of a Scherzo.] After some descending passages in thirds and sixths--one of the characteristic[260] effects in Brahms's style--the theme is repeated in the violins with richer scoring.

The finale (Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace, D major, 2-4) is a rondo on three themes, demanding brilliant execution from the soloist.

Rossini once said that his "Barbiere" was an _opera buffa_, while Mozart in "Le Nozze di Figaro" gave the model of the _dramma giocoso_: a fine distinction, worthy of the shrewdness of the author.

The allegro giocoso with which the trio ends will, like the whole work, repay study, although it doubtless makes large demands on both performers and listeners.