In music, a free-form instrumental composition for keyboard or chamber ensemble, originating in the late Renaissance, and much favoured by the English composers John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, and William Byrd.
It implies the free manipulation of musical figures without regard to models of form. Later composers include Georg Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Mozart.
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