Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In music, excited, agitated: noting passages to be rendered so as to produce such an effect.

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Examples

  • Meretrix speciosa cepit delicatius stringere colla complexibus, et corpora in libidinem concitato, &c. 5138.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Est affinitas cum scelotyrbe, chorea viti, deest flexibilitas in fibris musculorum; unde motus breves edunt, et conatu seu impetu solito majori, cum resistentiam illam superare nituntur, velut inviti festinant, ac præcipiti seu concitato passu gradiuntur.

    An Essay on the Shaking Palsy James Parkinson

  • Propterea sero id actum, venit concitato cursu, at sero.

    The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827

  • The swordplay and actions of the combat are directly mirrored in the music, with "battle effects" in the strings and occasional series of short repeated notes by the narrator, a newly created "stile concitato" to express anger and violence.

    Crosscut Maria Coldwell 2010

  • The swordplay and actions of the combat are directly mirrored in the music, with "battle effects" in the strings and occasional series of short repeated notes by the narrator, a newly created "stile concitato" to express anger and violence.

    Crosscut Maria Coldwell 2010

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