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
- 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.
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”
“Listed below are links to weblogs that reference vivace:”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Marissa Bronfman: Tantalizing Tunes: A Fall Handful of Hit Performances
“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’.
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