pianissimo

How To Use pianissimo In A Sentence

• She handles everything from piercing to pianissimo with ease and has just enough edge in her voice for this kind of Verdi role. Burn, Baby, Burn
• Few pianists produce such gorgeous pianissimos!
• And as performance dates drew close rehearsals became almost terrifying in their propulsive, impelling commitment - pianissimos were scaled to a whisper and fortes forceful and triumphant.
• The piano is often in the leading parts, and the accompanying parts play piano dolce, that's almost an entire degree softer, on the way to pianissimo.
• Pianissimos were so soft they whispered, the fortes were imbued with a warmth and strength that echoed through the chapel and up to its high, vaulted ceilings.
• By now Chopin was physically a shadow of himself; but it was not just lack of strength that made him play forte passages piano or pianissimo.
• I remember an occasion when all the musicians began to breathe at ease on my taking this piece at the true moderate pace: then the humorous sforzato of the basses and bassoons at once produced an intelligible effect; the short crescendi became clear, the delicate pianissimo close was effective, and the gentle gravity of the returning principal movement was properly felt. On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,
• The feathery pianissimo lightness in the upper strings against the mezzo forte melody lower down is perfectly weighted.
• Page view page image: in character when played piano or mezzo-forte; the flute also, in its lowest register, recalls the pianissimo trumpet tone. Principles of orchestration
• Pile on the pianissimo and postpone the pizzazz. The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women by James Ellroy – review