Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adv. Music With motion or animation. Used chiefly as a direction.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In music, rapid: as, piu mosso, more rapid; meno mosso, less rapid.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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.
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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
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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.
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_Più lento_ (lit. more slowly), _meno mosso_ (lit. less movement).
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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
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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.
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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.
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But with the meno mosso (D flat major) come pleasanter thoughts.
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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.
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