bravuran.
/brəˈv(j)ʊərə/ 1. Display of daring or defiance; brilliancy of execution, dash; attempt at brilliant performance.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > courage > daring > [noun] > an act or display of daring
daringc1374
derring-do1579
derring-deed1633
sallya1639
bravura1813
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > energy or enterprise > display of enterprise or daring
bravura1813
1813 Examiner 3 May 282/1 A Thunder Storm [picture] has a bravura both of conception and execution.
1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 58 260 The great vice of the present day is bravura—an attempt to do something beyond the truth.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xxi. vi. 600 Most shameful this burning of Habelschwert by way of mere bravura.
1879 Athenæum No. 2709 The idea, spontaneous and thrillingly simple, has none of their bravura.
2. A passage or piece of music requiring great skill and spirit in its execution, written to task the artist's powers. Also transferred.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passage executed in specific way
concerto grosso1724
legatoa1757
ad libitum1759
larghetto1760
moderato1762
bravura1787
pomposo1807
tutti1816
spiritoso1829
alla capella1859
alla marcia1860
passage work1865
retrogression1869
largamente1878
religioso1888
grandioso1914
animato1924
pesante1932
precipitato1955
1787 ‘A. Pasquin’ Children of Thespis ii. 39 In the lofty bravuras she copies the spheres.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 45 Listening to a lady amateur skylark it, up and down, through the finest bravura of Rossini or Mozart.
1846 T. De Quincey Syst. Heavens in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 577/2 A short bravura of John Paul Richter..I call it a bravura, as being intentionally a passage of display and elaborate execution.
Compounds
attributive in the musical sense.
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1802 Edinb. Rev. 1 217 What a Scotch or Irish melody is to a bravura singer.
1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 121 The bravura style of violin playing.
1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 253 The bravura passages should subserve good musical ideas.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. vi. 232 His popular, and not very refined style of bravura-singing.
1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 272/1 Bravura songs, requiring a compass and a power of execution out of the common.
Derivatives
braˈvuraish adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [adjective] > passage executed in specific way
alla breve1782
grandioso1787
larghetto1815
spiritoso1824
pomposoa1845
appassionato1869
animato1874
bravuraish1879
alla marcia1880
tutti1884
largamente1893
precipitato1965
1879 Art Jrnl. June 113 This accomplished artist's bravuraish handling and colouring.
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