Definition of Perdendo

1. slowing and softening at the same time in music [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perdendo

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percussively
percussiveness
percussor
percussors
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percutaneous nephrostomy
percutaneous stimulation
percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography
percutaneous transluminal angioplasty
percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
percutaneous umbilical blood sampling
percutaneously
perdendo (current term)
perdeuterate
perdeuterated
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perdicine
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perdition
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perdue
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Literary usage of Perdendo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"Beethoven uses ' perdendo le forze, dolente ' in the third movement of the ... He also employe ' sempre perdendo ' in the slow movement of the Symphony in ..."

2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1907)
"Beethoven uses ' perdendo le forze, dolente ' in the third movement of the ... He also employs ' sempre perdendo ' in the slow movement of the Symphony in ..."

3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1851)
"... Fui negli alti palagi, e in un momento Senza pregio restai, ne piu qual pria Vivea contento alia capanna mia. Degli anni miei perdendo il piu bel ..."

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