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Or, more precisely, smorzando means ‘extinguishing’. Here’s your musical lesson: smorz means ‘lessen’. S’mores may be moreish, but smorzando is decidedly lessish. Well, in this case, not dying the death of deaths, but dying away. Just as the actual line that I just punned on from the requiem is mors stupebit, “death will be stunned,” the morz in smorzando refers to dying. Imagine eating a whole box of those! Smorz stupebit indeed!īut there’s our cue. Things are going to get mighty gooey mighty quick around here! And, to reinforce that, there’s a s’mores-themed breakfast cereal called… oh, yes it is… Smorz. So the first thing you think is likely along the lines of “S’mores! Oh yes!” Ah, toasted marshmallows and melting chocolate between graham crackers.

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It’s not typically written out in full in a score, but it’s also not written as smz. The difference starts in what you see on the page. There is only one letter of difference in the word, but smorzando is more of a smothering counterpart to the firework of the sforzando.

People who read sheet music are likely familiar with sforzando, the dynamic instruction usually marked on the page with sfz, which might look like a logo for some luxury item but to me resembles the mark and sound made when swatting or stifling a small insect – not an inapposite impression, since a sforzando is a sudden bit of loudness, a thing that could make the audience jump.