Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, expressive: noting a passage to be rendered with ardent expression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mus.) With expression.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Music. The
notation indicating to play in anexpressive manner. Expressively.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Beethoven is the only composer in history who writes first espressivo [with expression] and then a tempo [resume the tempo]—it's in his Piano Sonata, Opus 109.
Vienna's Classical Iconoclast Stuart Isacoff 2011
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In the Adagio espressivo, Beermann is very expressive indeed, but a bit fast – and his reading of the finale is very spirited and fleet-footed.
Schumann on CD Mark J. Estren 2010
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Steep Steps, for bass clarinet, plays the timbral angle for humor, staccato Raymond-Scott machinery in the bass against the unlikely espressivo of the instrument's treble, ending with a big-band saxophone-like wail of clarino; Brent Besner hit it all with character and flair.
Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Steep Steps, for bass clarinet, plays the timbral angle for humor, staccato Raymond-Scott machinery in the bass against the unlikely espressivo of the instrument's treble, ending with a big-band saxophone-like wail of clarino; Brent Besner hit it all with character and flair.
Magna Carter (7): Either/Or Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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In the Adagio espressivo, Beermann is very expressive indeed, but a bit fast – and his reading of the finale is very spirited and fleet-footed.
Schumann on CD Mark J. Estren 2010
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‘Adagio molto espressivo, sempre legato,’ she read next.
The Wrong Box 2004
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We rumbled _andante espressivo_ over the hexagonal cobbles of the Chaussée d'Arsenic, crossed the mauve canal and bent under the hanging cliffs of the cheese quarries.
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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'Adagio molto espressivo, sempre legato,' she read next.
The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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The young lady not only glided over these difficulties with ease and grace, but also brought out the _espressivo_ so necessary for the effective rendition of this division.
Music and Some Highly Musical People James M. Trotter 1867
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Trovatore, 'is a fine composition abounding in _espressivo_ and _bravura_ passages: the compass is also extensive, requiring great range for a baritone voice.
Music and Some Highly Musical People James M. Trotter 1867
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