Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Anima, animo, animoso

by John Weeks Moore

Anima, animo, animoso, and ANIMATO. (I.) These words have all a similar meaning. The sound box of an instrument is the anima, the soul, the spirit of it. Animato, animated, is a term by which the Italians indicate that a movement is to be performed with boldness and spirit.