What Does Ricercata Mean?

A ricercar is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition. The term ricercar means to search out, and many ricercars serve a preludial function to "search out" the key or mode of a following piece.

What is a ricercata?

noun Now, a fugue of specially learned character, in which every contrapuntal device is utilized; or a fugue without episodes, subject and answer recurring continually.

What does Steeding mean?

: a horse used or trained for riding : a spirited horse The act opens with a princess on a white steed prancing about the ring.—