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adverb
Music(especially as a direction) in a lively and brisk manner.
‘he wants this piece played vivace’- ‘It brought plenty of vigor to the vivace opening movement, appropriately so, although the acoustics of the drawing room venue for the concerts lent a hard edge to some of the concerted passages.’
- ‘A trenchant First Movement is marked Andantino-Allegro molto vivace and Hogwood is superb in handling the transition between both parts of the score.’
- ‘The Allegro molto vivace was - appropriately enough - very animated, and their intonation, if not perfect, impressive.’
- ‘It divides into three movements - Allegro, Lento, Allegro vivace.’
- ‘The third movement of the D major concerto is especially difficult in tone and tempo: it has never been clear, to my mind, how one can simultaneously be allegro giocoso yet heed the indication ma non troppo vivace.’
adjective
MusicPlayed in a lively and brisk manner.
- ‘the pianist's dazzling rendition of the vivace finale was a tour de force’
noun
MusicA passage or movement marked to be performed in a lively and brisk manner.
‘That is, the gavotte switches to a vivace, which dissolves into a brief, though affecting, adagio.’- ‘The only break in the piece's forward momentum is a short recitative-like section just before the final vivace.’
Origin
Italian, ‘brisk, lively’, from Latin vivax, vivac- (see vivacious).
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