Hope-Jones has also recently invented a means of controlling the swell shutters from the manual keys to a sufficient extent to produce certain sforzando effects. From Wordnik.com. [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference
Anna Zubrzycki, the company's co-founder, lends Lady Macbeth a steely determination, but relies overmuch on sforzando by which odd phrases are intemperately bellowed. From Wordnik.com. [Macbeth - review] Reference
It must have been true also of works such as the often passed - over Second Symphony, whose jagged first movement about seven minutes of music, not counting the repeat of the exposition contains the indications forte, fortissimo, sforzando (reinforced, strongly accented), forte - piano, or sforzando - piano at more than 260 points, and the instruction "crescendo" at 17 points. From Wordnik.com. ['The Ninth'] Reference
Certain chords in the section are marked with quadruple sforzando. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to 3D TVs new battleground for plasma, LCD display makers] Reference
The opening sforzando of Higher And Higher might make you have an unfortunate accident if your system is cranked up high, so beware!. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
This is the "conspiracy" he sets forth in all the panoply of his characteristic italics, dashes, sforzando interjections and exclamation points. From Wordnik.com. [The Antichrist] Reference
On their way they encountered Ferrau who entered with a stamp of the foot, sforzando, attacked Medoro and killed him dead, thus obtaining possession of Angelica according to the play-bill. From Wordnik.com. [Diversions in Sicily] Reference
The energy, superhuman energy, of the thing is amazing: the storm throbs in the forest: one feels the pulse of the storm-god; the sforzando shocks and shrieks add to the terrific wildness of the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Wagner]
To him, silence was only important if the absence of sound could be used integrally to the rest of the music, such as a rest, to punctuate a score or the suspense of a fermata right before unleashing a crashing sforzando. From Wordnik.com. [VeryCD - 电驴资源订阅] Reference
One of the guys at the corner table finishes a joke, squeaking out the punch line falsetto, "I didn't say she was crazy - I said she was …" A Thunder clap drowns out the ending, but the fourtop hears it and the whole flock of explodes sforzando into riotous hilarity. From Wordnik.com. [The Aristocrats] Reference
In each wind instrument I have defined the scope of greatest expression, that is to say the range in which the instrument is best qualified to achieve the various grades of tone, (forte, piano, cresc., dim., sforzando, morendo, etc.) — the register which admits of the most expressive playing, in the truest sense of the word. From Wordnik.com. [Principles of orchestration] Reference
Think of them as visual poetry … but especially think of edges as you would the agents of expression in music …. pianissimo (very soft), andante (flowing), allegro vivace (fast and lively), maestoso (majestic), fortissimo con sforzando (whamo!). illusion (emphasis is Schmid's) of how we ordinarily see, and some of what he says is quite common knowledge - that atmosphere, particularly at a distance, softens and cools elements, and hence edges. From Wordnik.com. [Art & Perception] Reference
Sforzondo-piano and piano-sforzando chords. From Wordnik.com. [Principles of orchestration] Reference
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