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Definition of Fioriture
1. n. pl. Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.
Definition of Fioriture
1. fioritura [n] - See also: fioritura
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fioriture
Literary usage of Fioriture
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the first to introduce a system of fingering
which employed all the fingere and both thumbs. Paganini fioriture was the ..."
2. Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Covering the Entire Period of by Leander Jan De Bekker (1908)
"Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the first to introduce a system of fingering
which employed all the fingers and both thumbs. Paganini fioriture was the ..."
3. Contemporary Composers by Daniel Gregory Mason (1918)
""The fioriture of the Italian dramatic school of the early nineteenth century,"
he insists, "intended only to display the vocal agility of the singer (just ..."
4. Great Singers by George Titus Ferris (1881)
"In fioriture and vocal effects her taste was faultless, and she had an agreeable
manner of uniting her tones by the happiest transitions, and diminishing ..."
5. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1879)
"The band—100 in all—contained 14 oboes, 12 bassoons, 9 trumpets, 9 horns, 3
timpani, besides string [G.] The practice of ' fioriture' was not unknown to ..."
6. The Musical World (1857)
"But, anon, the teaming fioriture of ornament flows so profusely, ... now at the
termination of their cycle, in which ornament and fioriture team in formless ..."
7. Some Players: Personal Sketches by Amy Leslie (1900)
"The mad scene and rondo of "Lucia" was given with marvelous fioriture and ...
She is peerless in execution of fioriture, and her voice has captivating ..."
8. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1877)
"It is full of melodious ideas, full of spark ling invention, exquisite and even
expressive in its perpetual embellishment, its subtle fioriture, ..."
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