appassionato
Played with intensity
Appassionato is a musical direction meaning with passion or intense emotion.
Borrowed from Italian, it instructs performers to play with fervent, deeply felt expression: The cello entered appassionato, swelling through the phrase.
It appears in tempo markings like allegro appassionato and in movement titles, most famously Beethoven's "Sonata Appassionata."
Rate of musical performance
- markingIndicating with symbols
- directionWay something faces
- instructionGuidance for action
- dolceSoft, melodious instruction
cantabile · animato · crescendo · fortissimo · pianissimo · rubato · legato · maestoso
Intensely and sincerely felt
- ardentIntensely enthusiastic or devoted
- intenseExtreme in degree
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
- vehementIntensely forceful in feeling
heartfelt · soulful · expressive · emotional · moving · stirring · deeply · feeling
Assigned meaning
- phrasingManner of expressing something
- dynamicsStudy of forces
- expressionConveyed thought or feeling
- rubatoElastic musical timing
feeling · emotion · intensity · drama · climax · crescendo · fortissimo · pianissimo
tempo
Rate of musical performance
- markingIndicating with symbols
- directionWay something faces
- instructionGuidance for action
dolce · cantabile · animato · crescendo · fortissimo · pianissimo · rubato · legato · maestoso · sonata
fervent
Intensely and sincerely felt
vehement · heartfelt · soulful · expressive · emotional · moving · stirring · deeply · feeling · warmth
interpretation
Assigned meaning
- phrasingManner of expressing something
- dynamicsStudy of forces
- expressionConveyed thought or feeling
rubato · feeling · emotion · intensity · drama · climax · crescendo · fortissimo · pianissimo · nuance
appassionatoimpassive
Without visible emotion
cold · dispassionate · indifferent · emotionless · tranquillo
appassionatodetached
Apart or uninvolved
distant · mechanical · uninvolved · reserved · restrained
passion, passionate, compassion, compassionate, passionately, impassioned, dispassionate, compassionately, dispassionately