appassionato

• “If George shies at this, it can be tried again later -- say during an "appassionato" passage for the violins and cellos.”

  Perfect Behavior

• “So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamourWith the great black piano appassionato.”

  The Guardian: Saturday poem

• “: Marked "Allegro appassionato," a tremendous discharge of despairing passion, concluding with three foreboding D's from the bowels of the piano.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Chopin's Small Miracles

• “(Soundbite of song, "Piano Sonata No. 2") Mr. SCHIFF: This is largo appassionato.”

  NPR: Andras Schiff Surmounts Beethoven's Sonatas

• “The music of desire grew louder, their rhythm stronger and faster, driving to/appassionato/.”

  Captives Of The Night

• “Ridolfi, too, speaks of il grande appassionato and De Caprariis thinks him positively visionary.”

  A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli

• “The first subject is announced appassionato by the strings, the piano joining with arabesquery that follows the general outlines.”

  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions

• “The first movement begins solemnly, but breaks into an appassionato.”

  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions

• “Then your little girl (ragazza) who is so appassionato that she writes four letters a day, will make fete for you, and I think that when you go to the osteria with your friends you laugh.”

  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth

• “A knock at the door broke the _notturno appassionato_.”

  Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel

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