Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Music In a lively or vivacious manner. Used chiefly as a direction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Mus.) Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; -- a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. lively, in music
- adj. (of tempo) very fast and lively
Etymologies
- Italian, from Latin vīvāx, vīvāc-, vivacious; see vivacious. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Chicago Bells) - occurred in the musicians 'attention to ensemble playing as running melodies underscored the hair-raising "vivace" movement.”
“… On est tous devenu des wasp même si la différenciation de la couleur de peau reste vivace.”
“Click here to subscribe. vivace (vee-vace) adjective”
“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.”
“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.”
“Allegro vivace movement from Moses grandson Felix Mendelssohn”
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“The third movement, Allegro molto vivace, ended with such impressive force that the audience couldn't help but clap, unable to contain themselves until after the fourth and final movement of the symphony.”
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“Not sure which flowers are vivace and which aren't, but the little boy is awfully cute. vivace (vee-vas) adjective”
“L'absence n'est-elle pas, pour qui aime, la plus certaine, la plus efficace, la plus vivace, la plus indestructible, la plus fidèle des présences?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vivace’.
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 330 more...
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MUSIC - ALL TERMS
With focus on non-classical styles, but not excluding terms of the latter.
banjo, accompaniment, acoustic bass, bass guitar, bass clef, ground, brass, cornet, Mute, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, arrangement and 866 more...
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harmony of the spheres
tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, subtonic, leading tone, progression, sonata, concerto, allegro and 247 more...
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Wordnik Words
Words that appear on the home page of Wordnik.
abaci, cabooleat, endomorphic, warfinger, varna, tautological, quesadillia, hub, oceanography, ken, ignimbrite, galactagogue and 110 more...
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Musical words
nocturne, flat, sharp, waltz, etude, opera, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, cello, flute and 131 more...
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Dictionary
dilettante, frostjack, perfunctory, impresario, paparazzi, pastiche, lollipop, Cymru, nub, bivouac, knapsack, hoodlum and 105 more...
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Beautiful Music
a cappella, accelerando, accompagnato, adagio, ad libitum, agitato, aleatory, alla breve, allegro, allemande, alto, andante and 548 more...
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 320 more...
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MacBean's Words
verisimilitude, antediluvian, schadenfreude, eviscerate, exsanguinate, onomatopoeia, aesthetic, apocryphal, aubergine, byronic, brouhaha, bordello and 523 more...
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Tempo Indications
larghissimo, largo, larghetto, adagissimo, adagio, adagietto, lentissimo, lento, andante, andantino, moderato, allegretto and 27 more...
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avitalspark's list
epigone, epilithic, epiphanic, ecmnesia, forgetitude, pretember, ecphore, sovenance, agnosia, eidetic, mneme, fugue and 3 more...
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well tempered clavier
baroque, a cappella, lyric, sonata, minuet, cantata, quadrille, requiem, timbre, trill, adagio, arpeggio and 25 more...
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Musical Terms
Various terms, common and uncommon, relating to musical scores.
largo, andante, adagio, lento, moderato, allegro, vivace, presto, fermata, appoggiatura, acciaccatura, trill and 56 more...
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words to learn
ecclesiarch, decennium, decennary, galactosemia, tautogeneity, quadrature, vellum, wainwright, addax, quadrumane, omnisentient, glyphography and 75 more...
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Music Terms
major third, minor third, staccato, power pop, adagio, largo, vivace, choral, adantino, andante, allegretto, air and 7 more...
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some words
pulse, elusive, rumination, wisp, whisper, massacre, inertia, anhedonia, champagne, diaphanous, rumor, rife and 88 more...
Tweets
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bilby "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. Nov 30, 2008