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‖ bravura|brəˈv(j)ʊərə|
[It.: = bravery, spirit.]
1. Display of daring or defiance; brilliancy of execution, dash; attempt at brilliant performance.
1813Examiner 3 May 282/1 A Thunder Storm [picture] has a bravura both of conception and execution. 1845Blackw. Mag. LVIII. 260 The great vice of the present day is bravura—an attempt to do something beyond the truth. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. X. xxi. vi. 123 Most shameful this burning of Habelschwert by way of mere bravura. 1879Athenæum No. 2709 The idea, spontaneous and thrillingly simple, has none of their bravura.
2. A passage or piece of music requiring great skill and spirit in its execution, written to task the artist's powers. Also transf.
1788‘Pasquin’ Childr. Thespis (1792) 136 In the lofty bravuras she copies the spheres. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall (1849) 44 Listening to a lady amateur skylark it up and down through the finest bravura of Rossini or Mozart. 1846De Quincey Syst. Heavens Wks. 1854 III. 196 A short bravura of John Paul Richter..I call it a bravura, as being intentionally a passage of display and elaborate execution.
3. attrib. in the musical sense.
1802Edin. Rev. I. 217 What a Scotch or Irish melody is to a bravura singer. 1845E. Holmes Mozart 121 The bravura style of violin playing. Ibid. 253 The bravura passages should subserve good musical ideas. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. I. vi. 232 His popular, and not very refined style of bravura-singing. 1880Grove Dict. Mus. I. 272/1 Bravura songs, requiring a compass and a power of execution out of the common.
Hence braˈvuraish a.
1879Art Jrnl. June 113 This accomplished artist's bravuraish handling and colouring. |