Doloroso
A manner of pain and grief
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Doloroso is an expression mark: play with pain and grief. It is stronger than mesto ("sad"), often tied to falling sigh figures, pressing harmony and unstable colour.
It differs from languido: languido is weary and weak, doloroso is pain with weight. The usual mistake is to play it very slow and soft — grief can be intense; the point is the weight of pain in the sound, not the speed.
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- doloroso 的表情含义，参 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "Expression"；本文为原创表述
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