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Definition of Adagios
1. adagio [n] - See also: adagio
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adagios
Literary usage of Adagios
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1907)
"It might have lent a deeper undertone to his songs, or have enabled his adagios
to draw tears where now they only give a saddened pleasure. ..."
2. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"... Victory—ETA Hoffmann—Financial Troubles—adagios and English Hymn-tunes—Arrested
as a Vagrant—Negotiations for the Mass in D—The Last Pianoforte Sonatas. ..."
3. The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical by Alexander Chalmers (1814)
"ficult; and his " Seasons." There is a general cheerfulness and good-humour in
Haydn's allegros, which exhilarate every hearer. But his adagios are often so ..."
4. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1895)
"but this, of course, only applies to proverbs proper,—that is, to adagios.
The generic word in Spanish is refrán. In refranes, or currently repeated sayings ..."
5. The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and by Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, George Robinson (1818)
"There is more variety in the andantes, and adagios: the lofty style is there
displayed in all its majesty. " The phrases, or musical ideas, are finely and ..."
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