A musical direction meaning to play in a graceful, elegant, and flowing manner.
From Italian grazioso, derived from grazia (grace, favor), which comes from Latin gratia. The term became standard in musical notation during the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
When a composer writes 'grazioso,' they're literally asking musicians to make their instruments 'dance'—and the most famous example is probably the graceful flute melody in Debussy's music!
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