musical virtuosity
Exceptional performing talent
Musical virtuosity is exceptional technical skill in performing music—the ability to execute difficult passages with speed, precision, and apparent effortlessness.
The term implies mastery beyond mere competence: Her virtuosity on the violin left the audience breathless.
Virtuosity can also carry a hint of showmanship, sometimes at the expense of emotional depth or interpretation.
- maestroDistinguished musical leader
- prodigyGifted youth with rare talent
- child prodigyExceptionally gifted youngster
- brillianceExceptional intelligence or luster
- dazzlingOverwhelmingly bright or impressive
technique · technical mastery · finger dexterity · mastery · fingering · bravura · cadenza · concerto · soloist · pianist · violinist · flourish · arpeggios · speed · precision · showmanship · genius · gifted
musical virtuosityamateurishness
Lack of skilled refinement
tone-deafness · ham-fistedness · fumbling · clumsiness · mediocrity
musical virtuosityhackwork
Mediocre commercial output
sloppiness · butchery · tin ear · cacophony
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