risolutoadj.adv.

1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 19 Canone partito, or risoluto,..is when all the parts of a perpetual fugue are writ either in partitions, or different lines, or in separate parts, with the proper pauses that each is to observe, and therein differs from Canone Chiuso.

1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 204 Risoluto, resolved: thus we say a syncoped discord is resolved.

1953 Musical Times 94 183/1 The third is a scherzo, the fourth an adagio..and the fifth a risoluto recapitulation with maestoso coda.

1997 Amer. Rec. Guide (Nexis) 1 Nov. 143 I..found much that was memorable, from the First Sonata's jaunty theme-and-variations II to the happily energetic risoluto finale of the Second Sonata.

1768 Ann. Reg. 1767 197/1 As to the others rinforzando, dolce, risoluto, con gusto, spiritoso, sostenuto, con brio, they would have no words for them in their language.]

1817 T. Busby Dict. Music (ed. 4) Risoluto, a word implying a firm determined manner of expression.

1825 J. F. Danneley Encycl. Music Risoluto, resolute; a species of performance by which the notes of a musical passage should not glide into, but, as it were, be independent of, each other.

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 379/2 Risoluto,..with resolution.

1908 Musical Times 49 780/1 It is marked risoluto, and its character is typical of a concentrated and manly energy.

1976 Gramophone Feb. 1337/3 Harrell enters with a confidence and firmness that may contradict the overall marking quasi improvisando, but which faithfully reflects the more specific risoluto.

2007 Chicago Sun Times (Nexis) 17 Aug. 56 Halfway through the first movement, in a passage marked risoluto (bold), the piano goes on repeated upward sprints, as if its performer is escaping a bad dream.