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Allegretto

adv, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of tempo) faster than allegro wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    To be played rather fast and lively. not-comparable
Adverb
  1. 1
    in a moderately quick tempo wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A movement in this time.

    "It was only after the conception had received its fullest due, and the vast and complex organism its perfect development, that the certainty arose of an effect on human emotion comparable to that which was born when the opening bars of the allegretto in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony had been played for the first time, and the idea of them was from that moment alive and abroad in the world."

  2. 2
    a musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro wordnet
  3. 3
    a quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian allegretto, diminutive form of allegro.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian allegretto, diminutive form of allegro.

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