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FINALE (Ital. for " end ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 347 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FINALE (Ital. for " end ")  , a See also:term in See also:music for the concluding See also:movement in an instrumental See also:composition, whether See also:symphony, See also:concerto or See also:sonata, and, in dramatic music, the concerted piece which ends each See also:act . Of instrumental finales, the See also:great choral See also:finale to See also:Beethoven's 9th symphony, and of operatic finales, that of See also:Mozart's Nozze di See also:Figaro, to the second act, and to the last act of See also:Verdi's Falstaff may be mentioned . In the Wagnerian See also:opera the finale has no See also:place .

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