Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word partitura.

Examples

  • Prices of scores were prohibitive -- and though in such works as the Brahms symphonies, for instance, the 'concertmaster's' part should be studied from score, in its relation to the rest of the _partitura_ -- often, merely to obtain a first violin part, I had to acquire the entire set of strings.

    Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Frederick Herman Martens 1903

  • An earlier practiser of the tempo rubato than the lady mentioned by Quanz (see Vol. II., p. 101 of this work) was Girolamo Frescobaldi, who speaks of this manner of musical rendering in the preface to Il primo libra di Capricci fatti sopra diversi sogetti et Arie in partitura (1624).

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • Ballade No. 1 - Chopin's handwritten partiture/partitura manuscrita por Chopin

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.