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moto perpetuo
(redirected from Perpetuum mobile)

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moto perpetuo [ˈməʊtəʊ pəˈpɛtjʊəʊ]
n
(Music / Classical Music) Music a fast instrumental passage made up of notes of equal length
[Italian, literally: perpetual motion]
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For the grown ups is a way of inventing and designing something completely autonomous and as close as possible to the perpetuum mobile.
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In the central Romance, the soloist soared rapturously over the orchestra, and only the wilfully glum listener could fail to smile at the finale's catch-me-if-you-can perpetuum mobile, despatched brilliantly by Marwood.
Pure gold for all romantics; REVIEW CBSO Symphony Hall, Birmingham by Birmingham Mail (England)
Beginning with glassy, densely packed harmonics, it moves seamlessly through a crepuscular slow section and a trembling perpetuum mobile to arrive at the finale, labelled as a "12-part epilogue in three parts", in which the members of the quartet sing four of the lines over the double-stops on their instruments.
Zehetmair Quartet by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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