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pianissimo
[ pee-uh-nis-uh-moh; Italian pyah-nees-see-maw ]
adjective
- very soft.
adverb
- very softly.
noun
- a passage or movement played in this way.
pianissimo
/ pɪəˈnɪsɪˌməʊ /
adjective
- music (to be performed) very quietly pp
pianissimo
- A musical direction meaning “to be performed very softly”; the opposite of fortissimo .
Word History and Origins
Origin of pianissimo1
Word History and Origins
Origin of pianissimo1
Example Sentences
Then in that first sort of chorus, where it’s quieter, more pianissimo, “I’m defying gravity. I think it’s time to defy gravity,” she’s not quite sure.
And Lim’s soft playing is particularly sensitive, as in the pleading quality he brings to a tiny pianissimo quintuplet in Op.
In “Senta’s Ballad,” she catapulted into high-lying phrases with strength and point and drew her voice into a slender thread for beautifully formed pianissimo high notes.
Schiff, as in his touch at a keyboard, relished the extremes of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony — the opening truly pianissimo, the forzando notes truly explosive.
On Friday, however, her sound was often comparatively bright and extreme — the sfordanzos true explosions, the pianissimos exquisitely soft-spoken.
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