Lecuona uses a wide range of dynamics from pianississimo to
fortississimo that are suggestive of parade movement.
In a bitter altercation between Marie and Wozzeck, she screams "Ruhr' mich nicht an." The word "an" is set as a high C# quarter note, and the phrase is marked
fortississimo.
The greatest rhythmic motion and most dramatic volume (including a
fortississimo fluttertongue) occur in a horn and tuba duet in the last minute of the piece.
One such example can be found at measure 128, where ten measures of rapid
fortississimo sextuplets give way to two measures of rests.
The shock waves are formed when the trombone is blown particularly hard - in music parlance, "fortissimo" and "
fortississimo".
Not only is this work so rhythmically driven that Richard Wagner called it "the apotheosis of the dance," but it surges toward a "climactic
fortississimo," Hurwitz says, adding that this was the very first time that Beethoven used the "fff" dynamic marking.
Monsoon by Stephen Whibley mesmerised with a variety of ideas including bowed vibraphone, Kodo-style drumming and
fortississimo gong.
In fact, in one place the fingering assigned to a
fortississimo key click will produce almost no sound.
The first movement is Adagio, and consists of a long slow build to
fortississimo, with increasing rhythmic activity, eventually arriving at a loud adamant ending.
To improve communications with audiologists, this site offers links to a chart that shows musical dynamics from pianissimo to
fortississimo with their equivalent decibel values, and a table of the sound frequencies of notes on an 88-key piano.
The first movement (Allegro moderato) begins in an energetic 5/8 meter with material in the low winds, percussion, and strings that builds to
fortississimo to prepare for the entrance of the solo piano, which plays sweeping arpeggios before taking over the main theme.
This Ich liebe dich was hardly genteel drawing-room fare, coming across with fervour and
fortississimo. One can appreciate this singer's world-wide accolades particularly for Wagnerian roles.