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
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
The Allegro maestoso presents many points of interest.
From The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development by J. S. (John South) Shedlock
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
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