Feroce
With wildness and attack
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Feroce is an expression mark: play with wildness, attack, grain. It appears often in Stravinsky, Bartók and twentieth-century works, demanding a biting colour and a percussive rhythmic edge.
It differs from energico: energico is forceful, feroce is fierce; it differs from drammatico too: drammatico is theatrical tension, feroce is more direct and physical. The usual mistake is to play feroce as "messy" — fierceness still needs precise rhythm and colour control.
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Sources
- feroce 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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