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/əlˈɛgrˌoʊ/ Listen

Allegro

adjective

(of tempo) fast.

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"Allegro" Quotes from Famous Books

... not only a mere episode but a lamentable and humiliating episode, in the life of Milton the poet. Milton's life, says Mr. Pattison "is a drama in three acts. The first discovers him in the calm and peaceful retirement of Horton, of which 'L'Allegro,' 'Il Penseroso,' and 'Lycidas' are the expression. In the second act he is breathing the foul and heated atmosphere of party passion and religious hate, generating the lurid fires which glare in the battailous ...

— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith

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... I'm Allegro da Capo, a very famous man; Just find another, high or low, to match me if you can. Some people try, but can't, to play And have to practice every day; But I've been musical alway, since first ...

— The Road to Oz • L. Frank Baum

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