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In strict tempo at a marching pace (e.g. 120 BPM) Allargando: broadening: Slowing down and broadening; becoming more stately and majestic, possibly louder Allegro: joyful; lively and fast: Joyful; moderately fast tempo Allegretto: a little bit joyful: Slightly less joyful than allegro (so slightly slower tempo) Andante: walking
List of English songs by George Frideric Handel HWV Title Voice Composed Notes Text 226 Hunting Song or The morning is charming Tenor 1743 Voice in treble clef. Autograph, which survives, presented to Legh in 1751 by Charles Legh. Composed in London 228-1 The unhappy Lovers: As Celia's fatal arrows flew Soprano c. 1730 228-2
No. 12 Scène: Allegro, Moderato assai quasi andante No. 13 Dances of the Swans 1. Tempo di valse 2. Moderato assai 3. Tempo di valse 4. Allegro moderato (later the famous Dance of the Little Swans) 5. Pas d'action: Andante, Andante non-troppo, Allegro (material borrowed from Undina) 6. Tempo di valse 7. Coda: Allegro vivo No. 14 Scène: Moderato
Allegro is a musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics), their third collaboration for the stage. Opening on Broadway on October 10, 1947, the musical centers on the life of Joseph Taylor Jr., who follows in the footsteps of his father as a doctor, but is tempted by fortune and fame at a big-city hospital.
The composer and music theorist Johann Kirnberger (1776) formalized and refined this idea by instructing the performer to consider the following details in combination when determining the best performance tempo of a piece: the tempo giusto of the meter, the tempo term (Allegro, Adagio, etc., if there is one, at the start of the piece), the ...
In time (i.e. the performer should return to the stable tempo, such as after an accelerando or ritardando); also may be found in combination with other terms such as a tempo giusto (in strict time) or a tempo di menuetto (at the speed of a minuet) ab (Ger.) off, organ stops or mutes abafando (Port.) muffled, muted abandon or avec (Fr.)
Because of the constant singing of eighth notes in 6 8 meter at an allegro vivace tempo, the piece is often noted as one of the most difficult baritone arias to perform. [1] This, along with the tongue-twisting nature of some of the lines, insisting on Italian superlatives (always ending in "-issimo"), have made it a pièce de résistance in which a skilled baritone has the chance to highlight ...
Its French translation Pathétique is generally used in French, Spanish, English, German and other languages, [5] Many English-speaking classical musicians had, by the early 20th century, adopted an English spelling and pronunciation for Tchaikovsky's symphony, dubbing it "The Pathetic", as shorthand to differentiate it from a popular 1798 ...