Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective In a restless, agitated style. Used chiefly as a direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Agitated; restless: a word used in music, generally in combination with allegro or presto, to describe the character of a movement as broken, hurried, or restless in style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mus.) Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in arestless agitated style. - noun music A passage having this mark.
- adverb music Played in a restless agitated style.
- adjective music Describing a passage having this mark.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Stunned sports fans heard about great choral rushes, about slap shots con brio, about passing agitato and penalty-killing molto expressivo.
Murder Without Icing Lathen, Emma, pseud 1972
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The _agitato finale_ means the close of the passage with a hurrying movement.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Then came a swift _agitato finale_ -- a breathless, hurrying, trembling movement, descriptive of flight, and uncertainty, and vague impulsive terror, which carried us away on its rustling wings, and left us all emotion and wonder.
The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard
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Then came a swift agitato finale -- a breathless, hurrying, trembling movement, descriptive of flight, and uncertainty, and vague impulsive terror, which carried us away on its rustling wings, and left us all in emotion and wonder.
The Ontario Readers Third Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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(The superlative degree of _allegro_.) _Allegro agitato_ -- a moderately rapid tempo, and in agitated style.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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There is a military moment, a lyric of more seriousness, and a finish agitato.
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There is, I believe, no composition in the whole world that shows with the same distinctness the soul torn by tragic conflict; especially in the third part of the Sonata, the _Presto-agitato_.
Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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With the scene of the denial, for which we are thus prepared, the dramatic movement becomes exceedingly rapid, and the rendering of the events in the high-priest's hall -- Peter's bass recitative alternating its craven protestations with the clamorous agitato chorus of the servants -- is stirring in the extreme.
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With the scene of the denial, for which we are thus prepared, the dramatic movement becomes exceedingly rapid, and the rendering of the events in the high-priest's hall -- Peter's bass recitative alternating its craven protestations with the clamorous agitato chorus of the servants -- is stirring in the extreme.
The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871
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Alia prima notizia della di lei malattia egli fu sommamente agitato; giunse poi la notizia della morte, ed io dovessi esercitare il tristo uficio di participarla a Lord Byron.
Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals Byron, George G 1854
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