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Definition of Pianissimi
1. pianissimo [n] - See also: pianissimo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pianissimi
Literary usage of Pianissimi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mezzotints in Modern Music: Brahms, Tschaïkovsky, Chopin, Richard Strauss by James Huneker (1899)
"The pianissimi are almost too spiritual to translate into tone; and yet throughout,
despite the stillness of the music, its rich quiet, there is no hint of ..."
2. Famous Composers and Their Works by Philip Hale, Louis Charles Elson (1900)
"... and in the finale the trombones and bass tuba have four.part harmony in the
most whispering pianissimi. If one were to choose a motto for this sombre, ..."
3. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"... noble, imposing, but it can also become terrible, or rather terrific, if the
composer has so decreed ; in pianissimi, it is mournful and full of dismay, ..."
4. Music (1899)
"I find analogies in Beethoven, in those mysterious pianissimi in his symphonies
and concertos, where the soul is almost freed from the earthly vesture and ..."
5. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"... noble, imposing, but it can also become terrible, or rather terrific, if the
composer has so decreed; in pianissimi, it is mournful and full of dismay, ..."
6. Old Fogy: His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker (1913)
"... and Pachmann—the latter's pianissimi begin where other men's cease. So the
accusation of tonal or thematic monotony should not be brought against this ..."
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