prestissimo


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(of tempo) as fast as possible

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extremely fast

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This was followed by a Prestissimo movement, unsettled and vehement in mood, while the finale contained a massive fugue illustrating Verdi's mastery of contrapuntal techniques.
On one memorable occasion, Lhevinne dropped to the floor, prancing wildly around the room on all fours to demonstrate a particular quality of prestissimo for his young student.
It features, he reveals, an opening on alto flute, and ends with what's being billed "a scintillating prestissimo coda".
"The Whipping." G-centered; G2-G[flat]4; Tess: H, M; 12/8, 9/8, 15/8, 9/8, 18/8, Prestissimo ([crotchet].
Il Neorealismo, pero, e finito subito, prestissimo. E finito molto prima che l'Italia diventasse la terra del boom, come si dice.
Franklin's miraculous healing shrub, and building the tempo to a boisterous prestissimo at the closing moments of the anything-but-silent auction.
Say played famous composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso, Allegro con spirito, Andantino semplice, Prestissimo ve Tempo I" as well as "Alegro con fuco".
No obstante, el esteta checo toma literalmente los movimientos musicales en su hipotiposis explicativa de sus anacronias novelescas: adagio, moderato, presto y prestissimo (Kundera, El arte 101-102) que corresponderian, respectivamente, al cuarteto genettiano pausa, escena, sumario y elipsis:
Carl Scott is president (or il Presidente, as he sometimes goes by) of chamber member Prestissimo Window Cleaning Co., a Ferndale-based window cleaning company that has taken off big time and now serves southeast Michigan and northern Ohio.
Like all farce, however, this is a deceptively difficult play to bring off and while the stagecraft and the pace of Leighton Hirst's production are creditable, I feel that if The Man With Two Gaffers were to work really well, the tempo would have to be increased to prestissimo and the levels of mannerism and exaggeration pushed to the extreme.