Crossword clues for sforzando
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 fz (an abbreviation of forzando), sf, sfz, or ?.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"with sudden energy or impulse," 1801, from Italian sforzando, gerundive of sforza "to force" (see effort).
Wiktionary
a. (context music English) describing a passage having this mark adv. (context music English) played in this style n. 1 (context music English) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played with a strong initial attack 2 (context music English) A passage having this mark
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
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
Sforzando are a band from Melbourne, Australia who describe themselves as a "8-piece pirate orchestra" (fans usually refer to them simply as a "pirate band"). Their musical style combines elements of punk, Western European folk music and sea shanties to create "a soundscape for the ocean". There are notable Irish and Balkan influences on the sound. Current line-up of the band is:
- Quincy Hall ( vocals)
- Raju Sharma ( percussion)
- Scott Jansen ( violin)
- Paul Tierney ( drums)
- Dave O'Reilly ( guitar)
- Ben Tarpey ( bass guitar)
- Sharon Ryan ( guitar)
- Wez Rowe ( keyboards), ( accordion)
Sforzando is a word used in musical notation to indicate that the following note should be played loudly, and the band chose this name to match their loud, frenetic punk rock style. (For more on sforzando and other musical terms, see Dynamics (music).)
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.