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Definition of Fioritura
1. [n -RITURE]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fioritura
Literary usage of Fioritura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Music by William Smythe Babcock Mathews, Emil Liebling (1896)
"fioritura (fe-ö-rl-too'rä), It. Literally, "a flowering. ... Fioriture is the
plural of fioritura. First. A word applied to the upper part of a duet, trio, ..."
2. Studies in Musical Graces by Ernest Fowles (1907)
"A fioritura sometimes occurs after a pause when it is technically known by its
... It is as frequently limited to a single fioritura of short dimensions. ..."
3. Illustrated Technical Dictionary in Six Languages, English, German, French by Kurt Deinhardt, Alfred Schlomann (1921)
"... l'epoca délia fioritura cambiar la época de la floración задержка (f) роста
... in (n) fioritura (f) floración ..."
4. Geographischer Jahresbericht aus Österreich by Universität Wien Verein der geographen (1897)
"... (fioritura). Bei jeder Pflanze ,st ersichtlich, ob sie in der Umgebung von
... Cobelli Ruggero, Dr.: La fioritura della cima di Monto ..."
5. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"Passages of agility (fioritura, coloratura) executed in the manner above indicated
give that gorgeous flood of musical sound which was one of the many gifts ..."
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