con fuoco

American  

[kon fwaw-koh, foo-aw-, kohn, kawn foo-aw-kaw] / kɒn ˈfwɔ koʊ, fuˈɔ-, koʊn, kɔn fuˈɔ kɔ /

adverb

1. with great vigor and speed (used as a musical direction).

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con fuoco British  

/ kɒn fuːˈəʊkəʊ /

adjective

1. music (to be performed) in a fiery manner

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Etymology

Origin of con fuoco

< Italian: literally, with fire

Example Sentences

Unusual in its structure, the striking piece begins with a fiery and highly rhythmic presto con fuoco, a notation directing the musicians to play “fast, with passion.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2022

Those qualities are matched, though in an earlier harmonic accent, in the Mendelssohn Octet, represented here by a lively, seat-of-the-pants reading of the opening Allegro moderato con fuoco movement.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2011

The work opens with a slave dance, allegro con fuoco, and is marked double pianissimo.

From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher

There is no Allegro con fuoco for him.

From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

From the opening characteristic subject of the Largo is evolved the principal subject of the Allegro con fuoco, and there is also relationship between it and the second subject.

From The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development by Shedlock, J. S. (John South)