fortissimo
IPA: fˈɔrtisˈimoʊ
noun
- (music) The dynamic sign indicating that the piece should be played fortissimo. Abbreviation: ff.
adverb
- (music) Indicating that the piece is played very loud.
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Examples of "fortissimo" in Sentences
- Then the full orchestra lets rip for the next phrases, marked fortissimo, with cymbals crashing.
- He turned to the orchestra, told them the cue, and picked up from a vigorous fortissimo section.
- Again and again, we experience a Baroque church as a unique kind of fortissimo of joy, an Alleluia in visual form.
- Beethoven's many accents were given little attention, and rarely did the group produce a real, full-throated fortissimo.
- So far, this scribe detects two "fortissimo" candidates -- people palpably impatient to get in office and shake things up.
- Near silence or crashing fortissimo, simple melody or, as in the finale of the Bruckner, an enormous double fugue, he hardly alters his demeanour.
- With a mighty descending gesture of massed violins and woodwinds the storm unleashes its fury over rolling timpani, pounding bass drum and fortissimo brass chords.
- Excitement, splendid orchestral playing and rousing fortissimo sections are three hallmarks of Gustavo Dudamel's performances of the three Tchaikovsky symphonic overtures based on Shakespeare.
- It takes a lot of calculating to sing a role as challenging as Butterfly, but in Naglestad's case the calculation was sometimes visible enough to dull the dramatic edge: a pause before a high note, a slightly too-deliberate leap into fortissimo in "Un bel di."
- Even more so was the Vienna Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez doing Berg's "Lulu-Suite" and Mahler's "Das Klagende Lied"; though their fortissimo passages were even surpassed in volume by the three Tchaikovsky/Shakespeare pieces performed by the youthful Simón Bolívar Orchestra of Venezuela, conducted by their guru, Gustavo Dudamel.
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