Crossword-Solution: SFORZANDO 9 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

The energy, superhuman energy, of the thing is amazing: the storm throbs in the forest: one feels the pulse of the storm-god; the _sforzando_ shocks and shrieks add to the terrific wildness of the scene.

This is the "conspiracy" he sets forth in all the panoply of his characteristic italics, dashes, _sforzando_ interjections and exclamation points.

The _sforzando_ marks of Beethoven confirm this view, and, as in Example 27, we have our four measures to the next cadence, without this "cadence-measure." The characteristic traits of all these various phases of cadence formation are:-- (1) That the actual cadence-tone in the melody may be of any time-value, from the full extent of the cadence-measure down to the smallest fraction of that measure.

The terms _sforzando_, _forzando_, _sforzato_ and _forzato_ all indicate a strong accent on a single tone or chord.

The words _rinforzando_ and _rinforzato_ (abb.--_rinf._ and _rfz._) mean literally _reinforced_, and are used to indicate a sudden increase in power usually extending over an entire phrase or passage instead of applying only to a single tone or chord as in the case of _sforzando_, etc.