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Andante   /ɑndˈɑnteɪ/   Listen
Andante

noun
1.
A moderately slow tempo (a walking pace).
2.
A musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow.





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"Andante" Quotes from Famous Books



... which now indicates a slow movement, had at that time its original signification, meaning "going." It was an "allegro moderate." Haendel often wrote "andante allegro." Through ignorance of that fact the beautiful air of Gluck, "Divinities of the Styx," is sung too slowly and the air of Thaos in the "Iphigenia in Tauris" equally so. Berlioz recollected having heard at the opera ...
— On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music • Camille Saint-Saens


Words linked to "Andante" :   music, slow, tempo, pacing, musical composition, piece of music, musical passage, passage, opus, piece, composition


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