animatoadj.adv.n.

1874 Musical Times 16 489/2 We think it would have been better if the change in the character of the accompaniment had been reserved for the commencement of the ‘animato’ phrase.

1967 A. O. Warburton Anal. Mus. Classics II. 227 The transition starts with an animato development of the first subject.

1983 Financial Times 19 Apr. 13 He caught exactly the..sadness of the allegretto of his opening piece, Schumann's A minor sonata, and the dancing surge of its animato finale.

2004 C. Seymour Operas Benjamin Britten 72 Although his interpretation is generally faster, the ‘animato’ passage is slower and more inhibited.

1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 68/2 At the close of the great duet in the third act of Auber's ‘Haydée’,..the coda is marked only ‘animato’, but a quicker time is clearly intended.

1942 S. Taylor Chorale Preludes J. S. Bach iii. 48 One of the few Passion-tide preludes that can be played animato.

1967 Music Educators Jrnl. 53 123 (advt.) Just try a Reynolds; it gives you..the freedom to play the way a clarinet should be played..animato!

1997 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 14 Sept. b9 The third Allegro, marked ‘animato’, and chock full of dance material, found a home in the hands of the talented duo.

1924 Musical Times 65 230/1 The animato sails along capitally for three pages, and then works up a climax.

1989 N.Y. Times 2 Apr. xxii. 35/4 Get ready for the animato..here it comes..let your body lean with it, get swept up with it.

2001 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 14 May b5 Many conductors today are too leisurely with this music which demands an art nouveau whiplash tensility: powerful swells and releases, sudden animatos.