Hispanicization of sforzato, past participle of the Italian verb sforzare, tighten, compel, constrain, force, coerce, compel. In music is also called sforzando ( sf or sfz or fz: subito forte ) one of the annotations of the score to indicate the nuance of sudden increase in loudness or acoustic intensity of musical sounds.
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