Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name)
5. musical compositions
6. operas (musical compositions)

Anotations

Scope note:

Relatively short musical pieces, ranging from light instrumental compositions, to entertainments performed between the acts of a play, to elaborate comic pieces performed between the acts of 17th- and 18th-century serious operas, usually for soprano and bass.