Allegretto
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Allegretto is an adverb meaning (music) To be played rather fast and lively.
Meaning
(music) To be played rather fast and lively.
More Meanings
- (music) A movement in this time.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- allegrettos
Synonyms for allegretto
Depending on context, synonyms include fast.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fast, allegrissimo, vivace, veloce, vigoroso, uptempo.
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