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Pianissimo  adj.  (Mus.) Very soft; a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pianissimo" Quotes from Famous Books



... ceased playing loudly and dropped their tone to pianissimo, so that if Juanita were to ...
— The Velvet Glove • Henry Seton Merriman

... was one of horror. A screech-owl had just sent its dreadful note in melancholy waves out upon the still night air. It started low, almost pianissimo, rose with a hideous crescendo to fortissimo, and then died away like the wail of a lost soul. It came from just ahead of them and to the right. Alice's horse shied and danced nervously. Prudence's horse stood stock still. Then, as no further sound ...
— The Hound From The North • Ridgwell Cullum

... classes of food, I have set them to music in such a way that the meal, for instance, may open with a Soup Overture, to be followed by a Roast Beef March in C, and so on, closing with a kind of Mince Pie La Somnambula pianissimo in G. Space, of course, forbids an extended description of this idea as I propose to carry it out, but the conception is certainly grand. Let us picture the jaws of a whole family moving in exact time to a Strauss waltz on the silent remains of the ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye



Words linked to "Pianissimo" :   softness, fortissimo, pianissimo assai, soft, very softly, music



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