Editing Intermezzo (section)

==Renaissance intermezzo==
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The Renaissance intermezzo was also called the intermedio. It was a [[masque]]-like dramatic piece with music, which was performed between the acts of a play at Italian court festivities on special occasions, especially weddings. By the late 16th century, the intermezzo had become the most spectacular form of dramatic performance, and an important precursor to opera. The most famous examples were created for [[Medici]] weddings in 1539, 1565, and 1589. In Baroque Spain the equivalent [[entremés]] or paso was a one-act comic scene, often ending in music and dance, between ''jornadas'' (acts) of a play.<ref>Lewis W. Heniford ''1/2/3/4 for the Show: A Guide to Small-cast One-act Plays''
 0810836009  1995  "A paso is a seventeenth-century Spanish one-act comic scene, which became synonymous with entremes (a short comic interlude often ending in music and dance that played between jornadas, the acts of a long play)"</ref>