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Fioriture

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Fio`ri`tu´re
n. pl.1.(Mus.) Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.
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This was an imaginative and intelligent recreation, capricious at times, and almost orchestrally sonorous; we understood, too, just how much inspiration Chopin was to glean from Mozart's fioriture.
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This amiable guitarist brought a tone richly urgent with life, fioriture dashed off with style and elan, to Giuliani's First Concerto; and the sprawling structures of this vapidly interminable work really did need the volatility of tempo brought by Williams and his colleagues.
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