Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music: A short adagio.
- noun An indication of time, signifying somewhat faster than adagio.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played morelighthearted thanadagio . - noun music A passage having this mark.
- adverb music More lighthearted than adagio.
- adjective music Describing a passage having this mark.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet I felt strangely unmoved, even during the celebrated, shimmering adagietto.
Fine Sounds in Hated Premises-If It Ain't Broke, Why Fix It? 2003
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Yet I felt strangely unmoved, even during the celebrated, shimmering adagietto.
Fine Sounds in Hated Premises-If It Ain't Broke, Why Fix It? 2003
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_Larghetto_ (_i. e._, _a little largo_) and _adagietto_ (_a little adagio_) -- a slow tempo, but not quite so slow as
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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And in the Fifth Symphony, one of those in which he called for no vocal performers, he nevertheless managed to vary and expand the conventional suite by preceding the first allegro with a march, and separating and relieving the gargantuan scherzo and rondo with an adagietto for strings alone.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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Cecil playing his favourite tune: the adagietto from Mahler's 5th on a scratchy old vinyl LP of a performance of the Columbia Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter.
Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum 8
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_larghetto_ (diminutive of _largo_) _adagietto_ (diminutive of _adagio_)
Essentials in Conducting Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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