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Definition of Agitato
1. a. Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
Definition of Agitato
1. Noun. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a restless agitated style. ¹
2. Noun. (music) A passage having this mark. ¹
3. Adverb. (music) Played in a restless agitated style. ¹
4. Adjective. (music) Describing a passage having this mark. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agitato
1. fast and stirring -- used as a musical direction [adj]
Medical Definition of Agitato
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Agitato
Literary usage of Agitato
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Dictionary of Music: To which is Prefixed a Familiar Introduction ...by Thomas Busby by Thomas Busby (1811)
"... a species of melody or modulation, in which the notes proceeded by contiguous
degrees. agitato ALLEGRO, or Allegro agitato. ..."
2. Cambyses, Or, The Pearl of Persia: An Operatic Cantata in Four Parts for by W. J. D. Leavitt, Charles Felton Pidgin (1881)
"g: Allegro agitato. Here, woman, fool ! Time to defy my will. Thy lover here did
wish to make thee wife, But Ahriman will get thee ..."
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