noun
- an elaborate instrumental composition especially of the 16th and 17th centuries in fugal or canonic style
Usage: music
Examples
- Bach’s Musical Offering includes a famous ricercar.
- The composer wrote a complex ricercar for keyboard.
- Renaissance ricercars often featured intricate counterpoint.
- The ricercar served as a precursor to the fugue.
- Students analyzed the structure of a Baroque ricercar.
- The organist performed a ricercar during the recital.