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UK
/ɐlˈɛɡɹəʊ/
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[ US /əˈɫɛˌɡɹoʊ/ ]
[ US /əˈɫɛˌɡɹoʊ/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a quick and lively tempo
play this section allegro
NOUN
- a musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner
- a brisk and lively tempo
ADJECTIVE
- (of tempo) fast
How To Use allegro In A Sentence
- A year later, in ‘L' Allegro ’, the delphic element had disappeared, and Milton's cheerful man heard ‘Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child Warble his native woodnotes wild’.
- The concluding Allegro has a rollicking, folksy character, complete with a drone-like accompaniment.
- And what caps this dizzy display is not seriously ordered fugato, let alone a full fugue, but a comically stilted allegro dance in duple rhythm, with octave leaps, mostly in two parts with chordal intrusions.
- The first movement is a conventional symphonic Allegro.
- From the opening notes of the Allegro vivace assai, the Berlin players conjured up Mozart in the best Viennese manner.
- The sixteenth variation - a famous tour-de-force - is a ‘French overture’ - that is, a grand introduction of slow dotted rhythms, followed by a fugal allegro.
- 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 concluding Rondo: Allegro comodo had sparkle and lightness to spare.
- The first forty-five and a half bars are for the orchestra, allegro moderato e grazioso. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
- The third part of the class is called allegro, and that consists of fast work, combinations, sequences of steps with the big jumps and turns that make ballet impressive. Butterfly