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Allegretto

adverb
1.
In a moderately quick tempo.





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"Allegretto" Quotes from Famous Books



... which is of a very sensuous character, is descriptive of the love-making between Faust and Marguerite, and the sarcastic passion of Mephistopheles for Martha. It is mostly in duet form, and closes with a quartet allegretto ("Addio, fuggo"), which is very characteristic. The scene then suddenly changes to the celebration of the Witches' Sabbath on the summits of the Brocken, where, amid wild witch choruses, mighty dissonances, and weird ...
— The Standard Operas (12th edition) • George P. Upton
... The Allegretto ended, Honour swung round on her stool, and set forth her Chumba project without reference to Eldred's threatened departure. Desmond laughingly professed himself ready to obey orders, within reasonable limits; and it was finally decided that he ...
— The Great Amulet • Maud Diver


Words linked to "Allegretto" :   fast, musical composition, passage, music, pacing, opus, composition, tempo, musical passage, piece of music, piece


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