Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, forcible: noting a passage to be rendered with force or loudness. Also
sforzando . Abbreviated fz.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb (Mus.) See
sforzato .
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Examples
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The terms _sforzando_, _forzando_, _sforzato_ and _forzato_ all indicate a strong accent on a single tone or chord.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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Bright has the day been, and my spirits an equal forzando.
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-- Bright has the day been, and my spirits an equal forzando.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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