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An accented chord
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sforzando
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sforzando may refer to: Sforzando (musical direction) , used in musical notation as an instruction to play a note with sudden, strong emphasis Sforzando (band) , a band from Melbourne, Australia "Sforzando!", a 1996 song by Sebadoh from Harmacy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sforzando \Sfor*zan"do\, Sforzato \Sfor*za"to\, a. [It. sforzando, p. pr., and sforzato, p. p. of sforzare to force.] (Mus.) Forcing or forced; -- a direction placed over a note, to signify that it must be executed with peculiar emphasis and force; -- marked ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an accented chord (music) a notation written above a note and indicating that it is to be played with a strong initial attack
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"with sudden energy or impulse," 1801, from Italian sforzando , gerundive of sforza "to force" (see effort ).
Usage examples of sforzando.
Pushpin or poetry it's the quantity of pleasure in these enormous markets of the non-musical and the half-musical, these chance persons with no true sense of musical values because they don't hear, they simply have no ear for music they don't know pianissimo from sforzando, diminuendos from crescendos and those elegant gradations that distinguish the performance of one artist from another on these reproducing piano rolls went for ten, fifteen dollars for the Welte-Mignon they couldn't dream of paying for these unique subtleties they simply couldn't hear, as though their ears were closed against the racket of American industrial strife everywhere like my left ear was closed from grinding my teeth at night from stress, yes.
There was a sprinkling of girlish laughter allegro vivace sforzando over the usual drone of middle-aged male ponderoso.
Nothing moved but great rumours of perfume swelling and fading, sforzando and diminuendo.
Alas, some gunman took off down Kensington Gore after a shoot-out and soon a convoy of police cars, sirens wailing sforzando and hurtling after him, could all be heard within the hall, destroying the mood of veneration and snapping Boris's concentration.