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espressivo

Term used in musical notation to indicate the performer should play with the necessary technique to generate an expressive effect.
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It goes without saying that conditions had a lot to do with it, but the style of his victory was not just scherzo but espressivo too.
Horse Racing: 'Stoute sounded like a man who means business on May 5' by The Racing Post (London, England)
Conductor Richard Buckley drew lyrical phrasing from the strings of the Orchestre Metropolitain, making us listen more intently than usual to the quiet bits: espressivo seems to be his favorite marking.
L'Opera de Montreal by Kaptainis, Arthur / Opera Canada
At such moments emphasis is thrown once again onto the sound of words as material, on the edge between crying and laughing, "when the/bedroom doesn't the Tolstoyan hanging/in the sonata of bilingual espressivo.
A Burning Interior by Peterson, Tim / Harvard Review
 
 
 
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