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Definition of Sostenuto
1. a. Sustained; -- applied to a movement or passage the sounds of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of the time; also, to a passage the tones of which are to be somewhat prolonged or protacted.
Definition of Sostenuto
1. Adverb. (music) played in a sustained manner beyond the notes normal value ¹
2. Noun. A note or passage marked to be sustained ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sostenuto
1. [n -TOS or -TI]
Medical Definition of Sostenuto
1. Sustained; applied to a movement or passage the sounds of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of the time; also, to a passage the tones of which are to be somewhat prolonged or protacted. Origin: It. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sostenuto
Literary usage of Sostenuto
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music of Nature, Or, An Attempt to Prove that what is Passionate and by William Gardiner (1849)
"sostenuto Is the power of sustaining the voice upon any note, so that the sound
is continued to the end without the least wavering. ..."
2. Well-known Piano Solos, how to Play Them by Charles W. Wilkinson, Edward Ellsworth Hipsher (1915)
"2 BEETHOVEN FIRST MOVEMENT—" ADAGIO sostenuto" Although everyone is agreed as to
the unfairness of "dubbing" a work with a title after the composer's ..."
3. Storia Della Guerre Civili Di Francia by Arrigo Caterino Davila (1801)
"1589 che altro re non aveva mai sostenuto di fare, non solo di chiedere in iscritto
l' assoluzione di un fatto ragionevole giusto e necessario, ..."
4. Elocution: Voice, Expression, Gesture for Use in Colleges and Schools and by by Sarah Neal Harris (1891)
"The sostenuto is that tone of voice used in love, admiration, and pleasing sentiment.
High pitch, moderate time. Examples. How sweet the moonlight sleeps ..."
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