Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb With motion or animation. Used chiefly as a direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, rapid: as, piu mosso, more rapid; meno mosso, less rapid.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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								Every year, the participants eat a bowl of rice about 15 centimeters high that has been formed with a mosso, which is a cylindrical wooden frame. 
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								Thanks to the rackspace cloud (formerly mosso) I felt like a fool on my first real day! reply mrzod What Went Down At Rackspace Yesterday? A Power Outage And Some Backup Failures. MG Siegler 2005 
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								The third movement of Beethoven's seventh symphony contains an interlude _molto meno mosso_. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight 
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								The student should note the difference between groups 1 and 2 as given above: the terms in group 1 indicate that each measure, and even each pulse in the measure, is a little slower than the preceding one, while such terms as _più lento_ and _meno mosso_ indicate a rate of speed becoming instantly slower and extending over an entire phrase or passage. Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928 
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								_Più lento_ (lit. more slowly), _meno mosso_ (lit. less movement). Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928 
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								The dog's reply was to continue his operations _piu mosso_. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm Armand [Illustrator] Both 1928 
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								From the piu mosso the agitation increases, and here let me call to your notice the Beethoven-ish quality of these bars, which continue until the change of signature. Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890 
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								The trio (poco piu mosso), the more original portion of the Mazurka, reappears in a slightly altered form in later mazurkas. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888 
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								But with the meno mosso (D flat major) come pleasanter thoughts. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888 
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								The dreamy triplet passages of the poco a poco piu mosso are comparable to galleries that connect the various blocks of buildings. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888 
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