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Sforzando. Sforzando may refer to: Sforzando (musical direction), in musical notation to play a note with sudden, strong emphasis (also known as sforzito) Sforzando (band), a band from Melbourne, Australia "Sforzando!", a 1996 song by Sebadoh from Harmacy "Sforzando", in music production also refers to a free, highly SFZ 2.0 compliant sample ...
Sforzando formed in 1995 in Melbourne by Quincy Hall on lead vocals, Dave O'Reilly on lead guitar, his sister, Karen O'Reilly, on bass guitar and Ross on drums. [1] The group's name, sforzando, is used in musical notation to indicate that the following note should be played loudly (see dynamics). They chose this to match their loud, frenetic ...
Sforzando: forcing: Playing with strong, marked emphasis Scordatura: discord: Alternate tuning (of strings) Con sordino: with sourdine (mute) With mute applied, esp. to string instruments: Senza sordino: without sourdine (mute) With mute removed Spiccato: separated, distinct; standing out: With a stringed instrument, played by bouncing the bow ...
These two basic notations are modified by indications including mezzo piano (mp) for moderately soft (literally "half soft") and mezzo forte (mf) for moderately loud, sforzando or sforzato (sfz) for a surging or "pushed" attack, or fortepiano (fp) for a loud attack with a sudden decrease to a soft
Mark McGrain writes about articulation on page 156 in his book Music Notation: Theory and Technique for Music Notation, where marcato accent in the third mark shown is referred to as the forzato accent, and the symbol as just an accent is referring to as the sforzando accent. "Neither of these accents alter the durational value of the note or ...
There are many types of articulation, each with a different effect on how the note is played. In music notation articulation marks include the slur, phrase mark, staccato, staccatissimo, accent, sforzando, rinforzando, and legato. A different symbol, placed above or below the note (depending on its position on the staff), represents each ...
sforzando (sf or sfz) Getting louder with a sudden strong accent shake A jazz term describing a trill between one note and its minor third; or, with brass instruments, between a note and its next overblown harmonic sharp
SFZ or sfz may refer to: . Sforzando, a dynamic marking in music; Sforzando (band), a Celtic music band from Australia SFZ (file format), a plain text file format for instrument data in software synthesizers