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- noun Plural form of
adagio .
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Examples
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Any of those adagios are very difficult to truncate, because one chord is just held long enough to evoke the emotion before changing to the next.
Mike Ragogna: From Conan The Barbarian to 300, Watchmen, Rob Zombie and Beyond: Chatting With Film Composer Tyler Bates Mike Ragogna 2011
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Any of those adagios are very difficult to truncate, because one chord is just held long enough to evoke the emotion before changing to the next.
Mike Ragogna: From Conan The Barbarian to 300, Watchmen, Rob Zombie and Beyond: Chatting With Film Composer Tyler Bates Mike Ragogna 2011
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One of the adagios has the sole appearance in Beethoven's oeuvre of a harp, used quite idiomatically.
Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010
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One of the adagios has the sole appearance in Beethoven's oeuvre of a harp, used quite idiomatically.
Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010
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One of the adagios has the sole appearance in Beethoven's oeuvre of a harp, used quite idiomatically.
Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010
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One of the adagios has the sole appearance in Beethoven's oeuvre of a harp, used quite idiomatically.
Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010
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One of the adagios has the sole appearance in Beethoven's oeuvre of a harp, used quite idiomatically.
Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010
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He leans over, yawns, and funk vibrates from his armpits, adagios from his mouth, staccatos from his feet in yellow-orange waves of tone and melody.
Chinchillas in the Air Rae Bryant 2010
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One of the adagios has the sole appearance in Beethoven's oeuvre of a harp, used quite idiomatically.
Rodney Punt: The LA Phil Plays With Fire -- in Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven Rodney Punt 2010
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But it is the ballet's canonical dance texts -- variations, adagios, the last act Grand Pas de Deux -- that have survived with little alteration and that once again proved their timeless veracity, justifying the production and showcasing some of ABT's leading dancers.
Around the Diamond: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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