单词 | bravura |
释义 | bravuran. 1. Display of daring or defiance; brilliancy of execution, dash; attempt at brilliant performance. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > daring > [noun] > an act or display of daring daringc1374 derring-do1579 derring-deed1633 sallya1639 bravura1813 the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > energy or enterprise > display of enterprise or daring bravura1813 1813 Examiner 3 May 282/1 A Thunder Storm [picture] has a bravura both of conception and execution. 1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 58 260 The great vice of the present day is bravura—an attempt to do something beyond the truth. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. vi. 600 Most shameful this burning of Habelschwert by way of mere bravura. 1879 Athenæum 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 transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passage executed in specific way concerto grosso1724 legatoa1757 ad libitum1759 larghetto1760 moderato1762 bravura1787 pomposo1807 tutti1816 spiritoso1829 alla capella1859 alla marcia1860 passage work1865 retrogression1869 largamente1878 religioso1888 grandioso1914 animato1924 pesante1932 precipitato1955 1787 ‘A. Pasquin’ Children of Thespis ii. 39 In the lofty bravuras she copies the spheres. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 45 Listening to a lady amateur skylark it, up and down, through the finest bravura of Rossini or Mozart. 1846 T. De Quincey Syst. Heavens in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 577/2 A short bravura of John Paul Richter..I call it a bravura, as being intentionally a passage of display and elaborate execution. Compounds attributive in the musical sense. ΚΠ 1802 Edinb. Rev. 1 217 What a Scotch or Irish melody is to a bravura singer. 1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 121 The bravura style of violin playing. 1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 253 The bravura passages should subserve good musical ideas. 1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. vi. 232 His popular, and not very refined style of bravura-singing. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 272/1 Bravura songs, requiring a compass and a power of execution out of the common. Derivatives braˈvuraish adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [adjective] > passage executed in specific way alla breve1782 grandioso1787 larghetto1815 spiritoso1824 pomposoa1845 appassionato1869 animato1874 bravuraish1879 alla marcia1880 tutti1884 largamente1893 precipitato1965 1879 Art Jrnl. June 113 This accomplished artist's bravuraish handling and colouring. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1787 |
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