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