maestoso
Americanadjective
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of maestoso
1715–25; < Italian: stately, majestic, equivalent to maest ( à ) (< Latin mājestās majesty ) + -oso -ose 1
Example Sentences
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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 allegro maestoso of former years has changed to an adagio, and, as Rubinstein aptly writes, it is "not the same."
From Memories of a Musical Life by William Mason
Right out of the festival, rather in full festal array, we seem to plunge into the broad movement of the surging sea, Allegro non troppo e maestoso, straight on to the fateful event.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
Just these three notes abound in the mystic first "prelude," and they are the core of the great swinging tune of the Andante maestoso, the beginning and main pulse of the unknown song.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
This brings us to the last movement, andante maestoso.
From The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
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