Crossword clues for pianissimo
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pianissimo \Pi`a*nis"si*mo\, a. [It., superl. of piano.] (Mus.) Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1724, from Italian pianissimo "very softly," from Latin pianissimus, superlative of pianus (see piano).
Wiktionary
adv. (context music English) The musical term indicating that the piece (or a section of it) should be played very softly. n. 1 A dynamic sign indicating that a portion of music should be played pianissimo. 2 A portion of music that is played very softly.
WordNet
adj. chiefly a direction or description in music; very soft
n. (music) low loudness [syn: piano]
adv. a direction in music; to be played very softly [syn: very softly] [ant: fortissimo]
Wikipedia
Pianissimo is an Italian word, meaning "very soft". It can mean:
- Pianissimo, refers to the volume of a soft sound or soft note.
- Pianissimo Peche, a brand of Japanese cigarettes made by Japan Tobacco.
- Salem Pianissimo, a "clean, tasteless cigarette" introduced in August 1995 by R.J. Reynolds.
- PP: Pianissimo, an adult visual novel by Innocent Grey.
Usage examples of "pianissimo".
The dog motive is repeated pianissimo, and is not returned to--not at least by Mrs.
Kees to have a rehearsal of both these symphonies, as they are very delicate, particularly the last movement in D, which I recommend to be given as pianissimo as possible, and the tempo very quick.
Aarons who, while waiting for his nurse, was pacing the room in his own accompaniment, pianissimo, of the Toreador Song from Carmen.
She drove as if she was guiding the Berlin Philharmonic through pianissimo passages of Ravel.
A moment later, however, the lovers started up again with a rustling of sheets, an exchange of soft endearments, with sweet exhalations and profound sighs, all signaling, he assumed, a shift in position, a pianissimo movement in their lustful symphony.
At the end, he tries to achieve the diminuendo from pianissimo which Schubert calls for, but the instrument will not respond.
Presently he began to lick his private parts with so strong a lushing sound that it quite overlaid a pianissimo passage for the flute and Stephen lost the thread of the argument, such as it was.
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.