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Definition of Allegros
1. allegro [n] - See also: allegro
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allegros
Literary usage of Allegros
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"... and dowie at the best, Their allegros and a' the rest, They canna please a
Scottish taste, Compar'd wi' Tullochgorum. ..."
2. The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical by Alexander Chalmers (1814)
"There is a general cheerfulness and good-humour in Haydn's allegros, which
exhilarate every hearer. But his adagios are often so sublime in ideas and the ..."
3. Richard Strauss, the Man and His Works by Henry Theophilus Finck (1917)
"... this cyclic absurdity, this everlasting formula of incoherent allegros, adagios,
scherzos, allegros. What a lack of imagination this formula showed ..."
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