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How is subito smorzato played?
At the marked point, change immediately into the locally intended smorzato effect: reduce intensity and resonance so the sound begins to fade, using the instrument's ordinary control or an explicitly specified damping gesture. Subito governs the start of the change; it does not require every vibration to be cut off at one mathematical instant. Smorzato can describe an attenuated, muffled or dying-away result, and published score legends show instrument-specific realizations, so no single hand, pedal, mute or mallet action, fixed dynamic, tempo change, timbre or endpoint is universal. The related smorzando usually describes a progressive phrase-level extinction and may sometimes include slowing, while smorzare names an action; neither neighboring grammar should be transferred automatically to this participial phrase. Sub. and smorz. are attested for the separate words, and contemporary scores sometimes place the two shortened components together, but three independent direct expansions of the precise compound were not retained, so this entry keeps the full text.
In context
Italian subito means 'suddenly' or 'immediately', while smorzato can mean extinguished, dying away, getting softer, attenuated or muffled. Together they call for the smorzato change to begin at once, not necessarily for acoustic silence to be completed instantly. Official scores attest local sub. smorz. and smorz. sub. spellings, but those examples and the separate component abbreviations do not provide three independent direct expansions of the entire headword, so subito smorzato remains written in full.
Music theory and score context
See also
- Musicca — Italian subito dictionary entry
- Musicca — Italian smorzato dictionary entry
- Dolmetsch Online — subito
- Dolmetsch Online — smorzando and smorzato
- Nuovo De Mauro — smorzato
- Treccani — Smorzando
- Salvatore Sciarrino — Piogge diverse, published score
- Salvatore Sciarrino — Il canto s’attrista, perché?, published score
- Paolo Cavallone — Daimon, published score and legend
- Lucia Ronchetti — The glazed roof, published score and legend
- Yamaha — PSR-E283 Song Book