Scherzo Scherzo is an instrumental musical composition or movement of vigorous, light, lively character, especially as the second or third movement of a sonata or a symphony. Scherzino is a little scherzo. Scherzo / Scherzino, sheet music:Scherzo, Op.12 (Sergei Prokofiev)Scherzo (Mykola Kolyada)RUSSIAN SCHERZO, Op.1, No.1 (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)Scherzino (Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko)