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Allegretto

noun
1.
A quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro.
2.
A musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro.





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"Allegretto" Quotes from Famous Books



... number of works for the pipe-organ, few are so marked by that purposeless rambling organists are so prone to, as the "Fantaisie." The "Melody and Intermezzo" of opus 20 makes a sprightly humoresque. The "Andante Religioso" of opus 17 has really an allegretto effect, and is much better as a gay pastorale than as a devotional exercise. It is much more shepherdly than the avowed "Pastorale" (opus 20), and almost as much so as the "Eclogue," delicious with the organ's possibilities for reed and pipe effects. The "Romanza" ...
— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes


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