sforzando

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On their way they encountered Ferrau who entered with a stamp of the foot, sforzando, attacked Medoro and killed him dead, thus obtaining possession of Angelica according to the play-bill.

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  1. adverb Suddenly or strongly accented. Used chiefly as a direction.
  2. noun A sforzando tone or chord.

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  • Klindworth employs it, but marks the B sforzando. —  Chopin : the Man and His Music
  • On their way they encountered Ferrau who entered with a stamp of the foot, sforzando, attacked Medoro and killed him dead, thus obtaining possession of Angelica according to the play-bill. —  Diversions in Sicily
  • The rapid figure in the second measure is for solo violin, heard softly against the sustained interval of the diminished ninth, but the final G natural is snapped out by the whole orchestra _sforzando_. —  A Book of Burlesques
  • It is because of misunderstanding with regard to this point that dynamic effects are so frequently overdone by amateurs, both conductors and performers seeming to imagine that every time the word _crescendo_ occurs the performers are to bow or blow or sing at the very top of their power; and that _sforzando_ means a violent accent approaching the effect of —  Essentials in Conducting
  • The coupler being brought on and off by a pedal, sforzando effects could be produced, or the first beat in cadi measure strongly accented in the style of the orchestration of the great masters. —  The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments
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  1. Italian, gerund of sforzare, to use force : s-, intensive pref. (from Latin ex-; see ex-) + forzare, to force (from Vulgar Latin *fortiāre, from Latin fortis, strong; see fortis).

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  1. Italian, present participle of sforzare, force, from Latin ex, out, + Middle Latin fortia, force: see force.
 

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