It must have been true also of works such as the often passed - over Second Symphony, whose jagged first movement about seven minutes of music, not counting the repeat of the exposition contains the indications forte, fortissimo, sforzando (reinforced, strongly accented), forte - piano, or sforzando - piano at more than 260 points, and the instruction "crescendo" at 17 points. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Anna Zubrzycki, the company's co-founder, lends Lady Macbeth a steely determination, but relies overmuch on sforzando by which odd phrases are intemperately bellowed. ❋ Michael Billington (2010)
Hope-Jones has also recently invented a means of controlling the swell shutters from the manual keys to a sufficient extent to produce certain sforzando effects. ❋ George Laing Miller (N/A)
The coupler being brought on and off by a pedal, sforzando effects could be produced, or the first beat in cadi measure strongly accented in the style of the orchestration of the great masters. ❋ George Laing Miller (N/A)
The difference between _sforzando_, _rinforzando_, and ❋ Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1928)
It is because of misunderstanding with regard to this point that dynamic effects are so frequently overdone by amateurs, both conductors and performers seeming to imagine that every time the word _crescendo_ occurs the performers are to bow or blow or sing at the very top of their power; and that _sforzando_ means a violent accent approaching the effect of ❋ Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1928)
In each wind instrument I have defined the scope of greatest expression, that is to say the range in which the instrument is best qualified to achieve the various grades of tone, (forte, piano, cresc., dim., sforzando, morendo, etc.) — the register which admits of the most expressive playing, in the truest sense of the word. ❋ Unknown (1923)
Page 187 capacity for provocative utterance; he knows how to get a touch of bellicosity into the most banal of doctrines; he is forever on tiptoe, forever challenging, forever sforzando ❋ Unknown (1919)
The rapid figure in the second measure is for solo violin, heard softly against the sustained interval of the diminished ninth, but the final G natural is snapped out by the whole orchestra _sforzando_. ❋ Unknown (1918)
The energy, superhuman energy, of the thing is amazing: the storm throbs in the forest: one feels the pulse of the storm-god; the sforzando shocks and shrieks add to the terrific wildness of the scene. ❋ Runciman, John F (1913)
The _sforzando_ marks of Beethoven confirm this view, and, as in Example 27, we have our four measures to the next cadence, without this "cadence-measure." ❋ Percy Goetschius (1898)
This is the "conspiracy" he sets forth in all the panoply of his characteristic italics, dashes, sforzando interjections and exclamation points. ❋ Unknown (1895)
The energy, superhuman energy, of the thing is amazing: the storm throbs in the forest: one feels the pulse of the storm-god; the _sforzando_ shocks and shrieks add to the terrific wildness of the scene. ❋ John F. Runciman (1891)
On their way they encountered Ferrau who entered with a stamp of the foot, sforzando, attacked Medoro and killed him dead, thus obtaining possession of Angelica according to the play-bill. ❋ Henry Festing Jones (1889)
A revival song by Jeremiah Ingalls (1764-1828), written about 1804, with an easy, popular swing and a _sforzando_ chorus -- ❋ Theron Brown (1873)
This is the "conspiracy" he sets forth in all the panoply of his characteristic italics, dashes, _sforzando_ interjections and exclamation points. ❋ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1872)
When he attacks a sforzando his whole body explodes, with head, arms and legs all shooting in opposite directions. ❋ Barry Millington (2012)
To him, silence was only important if the absence of sound could be used integrally to the rest of the music, such as a rest, to punctuate a score or the suspense of a fermata right before unleashing a crashing sforzando. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The opening sforzando of Higher And Higher might make you have an unfortunate accident if your system is cranked up high, so beware! ❋ Unknown (2010)
One of the guys at the corner table finishes a joke, squeaking out the punch line falsetto, "I didn't say she was crazy - I said she was …" A Thunder clap drowns out the ending, but the fourtop hears it and the whole flock of explodes sforzando into riotous hilarity. ❋ Paul Hinrichs (2010)
A sforzando occurs when you [hit] a [note] really hard and then get super [quiet] ❋ FlyingSkier14 (2015)
