pianissimo

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I told them, ‘Is there a way we can find space for rubato, pianissimo, glissando — all of that — so we can really play in the music?’

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025

Then in that first sort of chorus, where it’s quieter, more pianissimo, “I’m defying gravity. I think it’s time to defy gravity,” she’s not quite sure.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

Ms. Freni had the ability to project even the softest pianissimo passages across a stage.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2020

The piano is given a delicately meandering unaccompanied melody; Wang, virtuosic even in pianissimo, made it glisten in the air.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

He was still singing—“Not much money, Oh! but honey”—fixing his cufflinks, parting his hair; but then he looked up and saw his sister—“Ain’t we got”—and pianissimo now—“fun”—fell silent.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides