maestoso
Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of maestoso
1715–25; < Italian: stately, majestic, equivalent to maest ( à ) (< Latin mājestās majesty ) + -oso -ose 1
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The allegro first movement of the "Haffner," for example, is really more maestoso than the prescribed con spirito.
From Time Magazine Archive
The music, slow at first, becomes agitated as the old man struggles with his captors; it then sinks and breaks forth triumphantly, largo maestoso, as he discourses on the future greatness of Genoa.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
It begins with the Hamlet theme, allegro maestoso, very bold and rhythmic, which suddenly breaks off with a pianissimo suggestion of "How shall I my true love know?"
From Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson
Andante maestoso it begins in the tonic major.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
This begins, maestoso, with an impressive statement of the march theme, scored in brilliant fashion, with rushing figures in the wood-wind instruments.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding
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