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Definition of Maestoso
1. a. & adv. Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.
Definition of Maestoso
1. Adverb. (music) majestically ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Maestoso
1. a stately musical passage [n -SOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maestoso
Literary usage of Maestoso
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folio (1882)
"Par CHAS> D> BLAKE> maestoso. !~q П tef Introduction 4 « Ц • £ * * ê ^ I ^t ...
maestoso ..."
2. The Song of the Sword, and Other Verses by William Ernest Henley (1892)
"SPRING winds that blow Allegro maestoso As over leagues of myrtle-blooms and
may ; Bevies of spring clouds trooping slow, Like matrons heavy-bosomed and ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"the direction originally stood maestoso vivace, bnt was afterwards changed to
Allegro ma non troppo. The first movement of the ( h< 'ral Symphony is marked ..."
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