Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Impassioned; emotional: in music, noting passages to be so rendered.
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Examples
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If George shies at this, it can be tried again later -- say during an "appassionato" passage for the violins and cellos.
Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises Donald Ogden Stewart 1937
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If George shies at this, it can be tried again later -- say during an "appassionato" passage for the violins and cellos.
Perfect Behavior 1922
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So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamourWith the great black piano appassionato.
Saturday poem 2011
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: Marked "Allegro appassionato," a tremendous discharge of despairing passion, concluding with three foreboding D's from the bowels of the piano.
Chopin's Small Miracles David Dubal 2010
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(Soundbite of song, "Piano Sonata No. 2") Mr. SCHIFF: This is largo appassionato.
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(Soundbite of song, "Piano Sonata No. 2") Mr. SCHIFF: This is largo appassionato.
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The music of desire grew louder, their rhythm stronger and faster, driving to/appassionato/.
Captives Of The Night Chase, Loretta 1994
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Ridolfi, too, speaks of il grande appassionato and De Caprariis thinks him positively visionary.
A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli Berlin, Isaiah 1971
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The first subject is announced appassionato by the strings, the piano joining with arabesquery that follows the general outlines.
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The first movement begins solemnly, but breaks into an appassionato.
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