Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, with spirit, energy, or animation. Also
spirituoso .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Mus.) Spirited; spiritedly; -- a direction to perform a passage in an animated, lively manner.
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Examples
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With what pleasure should I hear people cry out, Che garbato cavaliere, com e pulito, disinvolto, spiritoso!
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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When, however, the subject of the song requires anything of the _spiritoso_ or
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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With what pleasure should I hear people cry out, 'Che garbato cavaliere, com' e pulito, disinvolto, spiritoso '!
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1749 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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With what pleasure should I hear people cry out, 'Che garbato cavaliere, com' e pulito, disinvolto, spiritoso '!
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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Filename C: \ista\05 - Karajan - Symphony no. 36 in C major K. 425 Linz - Adagio - Allegro spiritoso. wav
AvaxHome RSS: meemuds 2009
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04 Concertone for 2 Violins, Oboe, Cello & Orchestra in C major K. 190 (186e), I. Allegro spiritoso
VeryCD - 电驴资源订阅 maxox 2008
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