Definition of sordino in English:
sordino
nounPlural sordinisɔːˈdiːnəʊsôrˈdēnō
Music 1A mute for a musical instrument.
Example sentencesExamples
- A friend and I decided to make a ‘sword fight’ using trumpet mutes, which are also known as sordinos or sords for short.
- It's unbelievable how many different ‘sordinos’ they have in their equipment to play the con-sordino-beginning of the Francaix Trio.
- The other instruments have so much more content (more instruments, a large number of sordinos) in the Professional Edition, but the tuba is almost always used as a solo instrument and the mute is very uncommon.
- An adagio for the symphony - earth, worms and misery, fortissimo and sordinos [mutes], lots of sordinos.
- Musicians played in a park, using cardboard boxes as sordinos and adapting their music to sounds in the surroundings.
- 1.1sordini (on a piano) the dampers.
Example sentencesExamples
- Take a very famous example: before the first movement of the ‘Moonlight Sonata’, Beethoven very distinctly writes ‘senza sordino’, a clear indication that on today's piano very little pedal should be used.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Italian, from sordo 'mute', from Latin surdus.