mezzo piano

One rudimentary example is a relaxed mezzo piano gesture for an accented forte chord.

The Beethoven opened with subdued tautness, a springy mezzo piano that set the tone for this early work.

And the music's hush, a mezzo piano that made even dissonance sound lacquered, addressed only a slice of his dynamic spectrum.

Mezzo piano (see dynamics (music)), a musical term meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"

THINK of a music so sure of its power that it need not raise its voice above mezzo piano.

The movement ends with a run of notes that make a decrescendo from mezzo piano to piano, which is a soft ending compared to the first movement.

The string pianissimo at the start of the third movement was superbly hushed, unlike that at the start of the first, which emerged as a casual mezzo piano.

In addition, perhaps because of the particular Baldwin being used, the playing often had a brittle, metallic quality with indistinct voicings and unvaried dynamics if the level reached above a mezzo piano.

With brands like Mezzo Piano, Angel Blue and Pom Ponette, his company, Narumiya International, has tapped a surprisingly rich vein in Japan's otherwise dry retail market.

There were some exquisite touches, including Mr. Shaw's decision to ignore Beethoven's forte marking at the end of the Sanctus and to have the chorus instead sing its final line in a velvety mezzo piano.

In addition, the first note within a pair receives an attack of some sort-legato for piano and pianissimo, accent for mezzo forte and mezzo piano, and sforzando for forte and fortissimo.

But Shaw had his choristers sing mezzo piano to conserve their voices ("vocal gold," he called it), and he developed exercises that, as one participant said, "warm up the mind as well as warm up the voice."

The mood is naturally restrained, contemplative, and introspective as you would expect, while there's a common thread of healthy respect that keeps the quartet in the softer mezzo piano range... At the bottom line, it's another consistent and at times excellent effort from these tried and true modern musicians".

In the Mezzo Piano shop in Tokyo's Shibuya district one recent Saturday morning, Ms. Ono, a 31-year-old homemaker, dressed in black, looked over an outfit her daughter had picked out: a frilly denim skirt for 9,800 yen ($89.60) and a 7,900-yen white T-shirt decorated with pink bows and stitching.