Search Details

Word: perpetuo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Rounding off the work is Paganini's Moto perpetuo composed in the context of an era obsessed with finding a perpetual motion machine. Fortunately for violinists, Paganini's perpetual motion piece does have an end. Though Shaham sets no speed records here, falling shy of Michael Rabin's definitive account by about 15 seconds, the clarity that he achieves amidst the unceasing cascade of notes will set the standard for some time to come...

Author: By Brian D. Koh, | Title: Shaham and Sollsher Top All the Charts | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

...recorded during performance last November at the Showboat Lounge, Silver Spring. Md., he fronts a six-man combo working the mainstream of jazz today. Standard tunes are blended enticingly with originals by Pianist Mike Melillo, Guitarist Harry Leahey and Woods himself, and there is even a breathtaking moto perpetuo treatment of I'm Late from the Disney Alice in Wonderland. How that rabbit runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tops in Pops | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

Tota fabula iocorum est plena, qua de causa videbitis et professeres doctors et studiosos pueros perpetuo risu pulmones agitare. Histriones autem sunt omnes ad fabulam huius modi agendam aptissimi, nam minima cum difficultate Latine loquuntur, gestus vehementissimos faciunt, etiam saltare possunt. Ille quidem quie et Scaphae et Phanisci partes agit, videtur reapse saltatrix Romana esse. Et qui partes senum agunt, re vera ad similitudinem accedunt, baculis suis innituntur, barbas suas permulcent; qui partes invenum agunt, maxime iuveniles esse videntur--fervidi, ebriost, prodigi. Practerea enm personas et omne proscaenium theatre Romano simillimum spectabitis ac tibias audietis, putabitis ves non Cantabrigiae...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/16/1936 | See Source »

...first time), overture, "Donna Diana"; Godard, (first time), Suite; Haendel, Largo; Mozart, Turkish March; Mozart (first time), Variations, Richard Strausas (first time), Prelude and Entr'acte, "Guntram"; Tschaikowsky, "Elegie and Valse"; Wagner, "Ride of the Valkyries"; WeberBerlioz, "Invitation to Dance"; Haydn, Variations; Joh. Strauss, (first time), musical joke, "Moto Perpetuo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYMPHONY CONCERTS. | 10/23/1895 | See Source »

...Moto Perpetuo" (Musical Joke), Strauss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Promenade Concert. | 6/7/1895 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | Next