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Andante   /ɑndˈɑnteɪ/   Listen
Andante

noun
1.
A moderately slow tempo (a walking pace).
2.
A musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow.





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"Andante" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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 ...
— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb
... Dryads, say, to their friends, the squirrels and moles and wild-cats, and other denizens of the forest, Apollo will suffice. The musical taste of a kangaroo might find the strumming of his lyre by Apollo to its liking, but for cultivated people who know a crescendo andante-arpeggio from the staccato tones of a penny whistle, he ...
— Olympian Nights • John Kendrick Bangs


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


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