Definition of passagework
: a section of a musical composition characteristically unimportant thematically and consisting especially of ornamental figures
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Chords and passagework came crashing through, always invigorating but rarely particularly poetic in their effect.
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Scaglione was a sympathetic partner to Ioniţă’s interpretation, buoying the cellist’s light, quick passagework and underscoring the melancholy of the slower sections of the concerto.
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Nothing fancy here — no silences or syncopations, no intricate passagework, no self-aggrandizing musical effects.
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Radiant, expansive horn passagework opened the piece, setting the stage for Gunn’s poetic solo.
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The piano writing is almost frenetically brilliant; Mr. Andsnes dispatched it with such effortless command and penetrating clarity that every burst of arm-blurring octaves, every tangled patch of passagework, seemed both meaningful and fantastical.
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The piano writing, nodding to the taste at the time for florid, virtuosic passagework, brims with brilliance and rippling runs, as well as captivating elegance and intricacy.
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Polonsky’s brilliant passagework and transparent textures suited Mozart well.
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This was poetry in motion, Davis sustaining an unmistakable line even amid fleetly nimble passagework.
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First Known Use of passagework
1865
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