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affettuoso

[ uh-fech-oo-oh-soh; Italian ahf-fet-twaw-zaw ]

adjective

  1. with affection and tenderness (a musical direction).


noun

plural affettuosos.
  1. a composition or movement of gentle, tender character.

affettuoso

/ æˌɛʃːˈəʊəʊ /

adjective

  1. music with feeling
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of affettuoso1

1715–25; < Italian: affecting, moving < Latin ڴڱ𳦳ٳōܲ, equivalent to affectu ( s ) affect 1 + -ōܲ -ous
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of affettuoso1

C18: from Italian
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Il mio abbraccio affettuoso alla comunità ebraica #maipiù Efraim Zuroff, director of the Israeli office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told Corriere della Sera it was unprecedented for a newspaper to use Mein Kampf to boost sales.

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But with the second movement, populated by eerie apparitions from the "affettuoso" movement of Bach's concerto, the music heated up.

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The intimate second-movement Affettuoso, by three of the city’s finest early-music artists — Mr. Stein, the violinist Robert Mealy and the flutist Sandra Miller —alone was worth the trip to Trinity.

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No dainty dolce affettuoso I, Bearded, sun-burnt, gray-neck'd, forbidding, I have arrived.

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The prelude to Act ii. is called "Ophelia," and is quite conventionally affettuoso.

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