Meanings
adjectivefanfarelike (comparative more fanfarelike, superlative most fanfarelike)
comparative more fanfarelike · superlative most fanfarelike
- Resembling a fanfare.
His reading of the C sharp minor Prelude from Book I, for example, was flexible and introspective, and the D major Prelude from Book II, with its fanfarelike figuration, took on a sense of high drama, with the slowly unfolding fugue offsetting it.
2007 January 23, Allan Kozinn, “Bach’s Strolls and Puzzles in All Keys, Major and Minor”, in New York Times
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