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allegretto en · ADV

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian allegretto, diminutive form of allegro.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) To be played rather fast and lively.

Relateds

allegro · allegrissimo

Translations (12)

cmn 小快板 (musical direction) · ru аллегре́тто (musical direction) · pt alegreto (musical direction) · el αλεγκρέτο (musical direction) · no allegretto (musical direction) · pl allegretto (musical direction) · fr allégretto (musical direction) · de allegretto (musical direction) · ro allegretto (musical direction) · ca allegretto (musical direction) · et allegretto (musical direction) · sv allegretto (musical direction)

allegretto en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian allegretto, diminutive form of allegro.

Meanings

1. A movement in this time.
   • 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. 1880, Edmund Gurney, The Power of Sound, page 99:

Forms

Translations (7)

fr allégretto (a movement that is to be played fast and lively) · de Allegretto (a movement that is to be played fast and lively) · ru аллегре́тто (a movement that is to be played fast and lively) · ro allegretto (a movement that is to be played fast and lively) · sv allegretto (a movement that is to be played fast and lively) · pt alegreto (a movement that is to be played fast and lively) · pl allegretto (a movement that is to be played fast and lively)