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  2. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    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: At a walking pace; flowing; moderately slow tempo Andantino: a little bit walking: Less of a walking pace than andante (so slightly quicker) A tempo: to time: Return to ...

  3. Allegro - Wikipedia

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    Allegro (train), a passenger train service between Helsinki and Saint Petersburg; Allegro Coffee Co., a beverage company acquired by Whole Foods Market; Allegro DVT, a French video codec company; Austin Allegro, a car once manufactured by British Leyland; Mazda Allegro, a car manufactured in South America as a version of Mazda Familia

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Rather, somewhat (e.g. allegro piuttosto presto) pizzicato Pinched, plucked (i.e. in music for bowed strings, plucked with the fingers as opposed to played with the bow; compare arco , which is inserted to cancel a pizzicato instruction; in music for guitar, to mute the strings by resting the palm on the bridge , simulating the sound of pizz ...

  5. Tempo giusto - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Glossary of ballet - Wikipedia

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    French pronunciation: [balɑ̃swaʁ]; "swing [children's toy]") Swinging the working leg between front (devant) and back (derrière) through first position, usually in conjunction with grands battements or attitudes and involving seesaw like shifting of the upper body in opposition to the legs.

  7. Allegro (website) - Wikipedia

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    Allegro zone at Woodstock Festival Poland (2015).. Allegro (Polish pronunciation: [aˈlɛɡrɔ]) is a Polish online e-commerce platform.. It is managed by Allegro.eu S.A. (former: Allegro Group Sp.z o.o., Allegro.pl Sp. z o.o., Allegro Sp. z o.o.) which was formed in 1999 and subsequently purchased by online auction site QXL Ricardo plc in March 2000.

  8. Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Wikipedia

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    Eine kleine Nachtmusik [a] (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). The German title means "a little night music".

  9. Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...