Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, in an impetuous, boisterous, noisy manner.
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Examples
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This always led to a scene beginning with piano, but rapidly rising to the strepitoso.
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At dawn, when he has found that _strepitoso_ passage, which is the hurrying of the feet, he wakened the poet and cried, "Mon ami, I pity you -- she is mine!"
A Chair on the Boulevard Leonard Merrick 1901
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A phrase that steals in, just audibly -- no more, in the most _strepitoso_ passage of the stormy second movement -- a movement, however, in which the proceedings of the Divorce Court are scarcely more audible,
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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The Huguenot arrangement might have gone on in the undisturbed moonlight till the chill of the morning came to break it up if a cab-wheel _crescendo_ and a _strepitoso_ peal at the bell had not announced Sally, who burst into the house and rushed into the drawing-room tumultuously, to be corrected back by a serious word from
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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This always led to a scene beginning with piano, but rapidly rising to the strepitoso.
First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855
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He saw my countenance express something he did not like, and continued, "_Eh basta! sarà stato un uovo strepitoso, è cosi sinisce l'istoria_ [AE]."
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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Divertente, luminoso, ricco di sorprese e con un trio (Bardem, Cruz e Johansson) davvero strepitoso Vicky Cristina Barcelona è un film diverso, anticonvenzionale, colorato, riuscitissimo.
We Blog A Lot 2008
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Yes, in his 1943 recordings of Beethoven’s Fifth he played the piccolo’s trill bars 338-343 of the Finale with a “strepitoso”, instead of the “dolce” that is written on the score (and to which he went back after the war ...) but was that really a crime?
Amo, lloro, canto, sueño Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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