Definition of Smorzato

1. music, gradually fading away [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smorzato

smooths
smoothsort
smoothy
smooting
smoots
smorat
smorbrod
smorbrods
smore
smored
smores
smorgasbord
smorgasbords
smoring
smorzando
smorzato (current term)
smote
smoterlich
smother
smothered
smotherer
smotherers
smotheriness
smothering
smotheringly
smothers
smothery
smouch
smouched
smouches

Literary usage of Smorzato

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Covering the Entire Period of by Leander Jan De Bekker (1908)
"... Conservatory from 1889; became director of the imperial chapels, 1901-3. B. 1848, Kazan; add. Moscow. Smorzando, smorzato. It. Fading away gradually. ..."

2. Adams' New Musical Dictionary of Fifteen Thousand Technical Words, Phrases by John Stowell Adams (1865)
"smorzato. (Ita.) A word indicating that the sounds of the passage over which it is placed are to be gradually diminished. ..."

3. An Italian Reader: With Notes and Vocabulary by Antonio Marinoni (1911)
"... paternamente, quasi facesse lui, in quel momento, le funzioni di sindaco e di prete. — Ahi Riposta la pipa spenta e smorzato il lume, ..."

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