adagio

[ UK /ædˈɑːd‍ʒɪˌə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /əˈdɑʒiˌoʊ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of tempo) leisurely
ADVERB
  1. slowly
    here you must play adagio
NOUN
  1. (music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully)
    they played the adagio too quickly
  2. a slow section of a pas de deux requiring great skill and strength by the dancers
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How To Use adagio In A Sentence

  • Orozco-Estrada may have been too indulgent of her slow adagio, but her clear vision of the final rondo again underlined a real artist in the making. Vienna Tonkünstler/Andrés Orozco-Estrada – review
  • Unlike his usual style, the symphony ends with an adagio that includes some of the most anguished music he ever composed.
  • they played the adagio too quickly
  • The Symphony consists of only three movements - a pathetic Allegro in D minor, a highly original Scherzo in the same key, and a blissful Adagio in E major.
  • The warmth displayed in the opening adagio was refreshing, but the constant flux in this elusive symphony needs to sound natural, inevitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sunny played the song again, but this time at a placid adagio place.
  • The second entr'acte in Humanità is a particular lovely adagio.
  • The warmth displayed in the opening adagio was refreshing, but the constant flux in this elusive symphony needs to sound natural, inevitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ensuing Adagio with its long notes and plucked bass line made for welcome progress after a long first movement.
  • The recorder came in with an adagio-like slowness and gravity, momentarily wobbled off-key, then recovered.
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