0 a piece of music that has no formal structure and expresses powerful feelings: --
Rachmaninov's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini"
1 a piece of music written without a formal structure that expresses powerful feelings and emotional excitement: --
Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue"
The three rhapsodies together were originally intended to form a sort of folk-song symphony.
He is also the kind of man whose eloquence can lift him off into rhapsodies of brilliant exaggeration.
Many of his band pieces are rhapsodies or fantasies on folk tunes from various countries.
The orchestral rhapsodies numbered 1-6 correspond to the piano solo versions numbered 14, 2, 6, 12, 5 and 9 respectively.
Their rhapsodies would have had to be a little modified if there had been a schedule tacked on dealing with redundancy payments.
I was unaware that you possessed such a talent for rhapsody.
The lyric voice abruptly breaks off its affective rhapsody of hopeful domesticity in the surrounding poems, to listen to another tune.
Buried among their wild rhapsodies there were shrewd observations and pregnant suggestions from which philosophers and economists had much to learn.
