Another - to me more persuasive - conclusion concerns the systematic export of intermezzi.
Note that this pictorial intermezzo has left the semantic content of the document as a whole unchanged.
It is rather like a symmetrical two-act music drama with overture, an intermezzo or entr'acte, and postlude.
However, they praised the instrumental music, especially the intermezzo, and also the choruses at the wives' arrival and at the final dramatic climax.
A second idea, which brings back the repeated eighth notes from the intermezzo, begins the transition to the second main section.
The second half of the work symbolises the rapid development of the newborn and suggests the sequence of an intermezzo, scherzo and finale.
Such a move is also called an "intermezzo", "intermediate move", or "in-between move".
The importance of this intermezzo can hardly be overlooked in the history of opera.
