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Fioriture   Listen
noun
Fioriture  n. pl.  (Mus.) Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fioriture" Quotes from Famous Books



... first and foremost a piano virtuoso, a child prodigy, of whom filigree work was expected by the public for which he wrote his sonatas. (We cannot call this orientalism, for it was more or less of German pattern, traced from the fioriture of the Italian opera singer.) Therefore, emotional utterance or even new or poetic colouring was not to be expected ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell

... florid, very much like the present debased style; and the grave and rough Roman. The notes were expressed by letters, the Phrygian and Lydian styles followed, and so the intricacies of Greek music continued though much altered, with fioriture, rests, and breathing pauses. The collection became lost, and many who think a return to the old style would be best, much regret it. To judge by the fragments that remain, if such music was now executed it would have very little that was religious ...
— The Shadow of the Cathedral • Vicente Blasco Ibanez



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