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Andante

adverb

At a moderately slow tempo.

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"Andante" Quotes from Famous Books

... large number of works for the pipe-organ, few are so marked by that purposeless rambling organists are so prone to, as the "Fantaisie." The "Melody and Intermezzo" of opus 20 makes a sprightly humoresque. The "Andante Religioso" of opus 17 has really an allegretto effect, and is much better as a gay pastorale than as a devotional exercise. It is much more shepherdly than the avowed "Pastorale" (opus 20), and almost ...

— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes

... lesson-scene in Rossini's Il Barbiere (introducing therein the air with variations by Proch) in Italian; and in the course of the same scene sing, in German, "Ich liebe dich," by Grieg, and play the Andante and Rondo Russe, for violin, by de Beriot, and a valse by Chopin ...

— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam

... thee with good aid, To free thee from each churlish deed I fear; As when in the dark cavern thou wast stayed, He sent, to rescue thee. Andante's peer; So he (grammercy!) succored thee dismayed At sea, and from the wicked Biscayneer. And, if thou must choose death, in place of worse, Then only choose it ...

— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb

... prelude she chose a piece of pure organ music—the exquisitely simple Largo of the Second Sonata. From that she passed on to the Pastoral itself, opening it, as of custom, with the fine Andante movement—the presage of ...

— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver

Words linked to "Andante" : pacing, music, piece, piece of music, tempo, musical composition, passage, composition, slow, opus, musical passage