Bravura
A character mark calling for brilliant, daring display
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Bravura comes from the Italian for "bravery" and "skill"; in music it names a brilliant, daring style of performance. It can describe a piece's manner or a player's stance: scales clean, leaps decisive, high notes secure.
Bravura is not simply loud or fast. Real bravura makes control visible: the hard passage is despatched cleanly, and the listener hears ease in the middle of danger rather than panic. It sits near con brio and energico but stresses display; with noise and no outline, it collapses into swagger.
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- 术语的释义与用法，参 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians（Oxford Music Online）相关条目；本文为原创表述
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