adagio
IPA: ʌdˈɑʒioʊ
noun
- (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully.
- (music) A passage having this mark.
- (dance) A male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts.
- A surname.
adjective
- (music) Describing a passage having this mark.
adverb
- (music) Played rather slowly.
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Examples of "adagio" in Sentences
- Adagio for Strings version somewhere also.
- A tierce de picardie sets the scene for the Adagio.
- But maybe Adagio will weigh in on that one in a bit.
- Adagio is a French symphonic progressive metal band.
- The Adagio movement opens with a famous cantabile melody.
- The Adagio is in three parts, with a central accompanied cadenza.
- The soft playing in the trio of the 'Mozart Adagio' was ravishing.
- In the invention of free ornamentation in adagio he was very fertile.
- Essentially, it involved contrasts between allegro and adagio movement.
- The coda of this movement is recalled in the Adagio of the Ninth Symphony.
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