Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective In a lively or vivacious manner. Used chiefly as a direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, lively: noting passages to be rendered with rapidity of pace and brilliancy of style. The term is used either absolutely or to qualify indications of pace, as allegro vivace.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Mus.) Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; -- a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb lively, in music
- adjective (of tempo) very fast and lively
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Chicago Bells) - occurred in the musicians 'attention to ensemble playing as running melodies underscored the hair-raising "vivace" movement.
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Heralding the Sandy Koufax segment, the perky opening bars of the "Allegro vivace" movement from Moses 'grandson Felix Mendelssohn's Fifth Symphony pipe up under the opening image.
Laurence Vittes: Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax Laurence Vittes 2010
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Allegro vivace movement from Moses grandson Felix Mendelssohn
Laurence Vittes: Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax Laurence Vittes 2010
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Heralding the Sandy Koufax segment, the perky opening bars of the "Allegro vivace" movement from Moses 'grandson Felix Mendelssohn's Fifth Symphony pipe up under the opening image.
Laurence Vittes: Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax Laurence Vittes 2010
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… On est tous devenu des wasp même si la différenciation de la couleur de peau reste vivace.
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Heralding the Sandy Koufax segment, the perky opening bars of the "Allegro vivace" movement from Moses 'grandson Felix Mendelssohn's Fifth Symphony pipe up under the opening image.
Laurence Vittes: Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax Laurence Vittes 2010
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Heralding the Sandy Koufax segment in Jews and Baseball, the perky opening bars of the "Allegro vivace" movement from Moses 'grandson Felix Mendelssohn's Fifth Symphony pipe up.
Laurence Vittes: Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax Laurence Vittes 2010
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"The scientists behind the technology, which has been developed in research funded by the US government, say that generating power in this way would potentially cost only around 3.5p per kilowatt hour, compared to about 4.5p for wind energy and between 10p and 31p for solar power. They say the technology would require up to 50 times less ocean acreage than wave power generation.
The system, conceived by scientists at the University of Michigan, is called Vivace, or 'vortex-induced vibrations for aquatic clean energy'."
- Jasper Copping, 'Ocean currents can power the world, say scientists', telegraph.co.uk, 29 Nov 2008.
November 30, 2008