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Andante

adverb

At a moderately slow tempo.

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"Andante" Quotes from Famous Books

... would have been difficult to decide which to admire more, the horse's limbs or the rider's lungs; for the latter, during this rapid ride, had sung without taking breath, so to speak, the whole overture to Wilhelm Tell. We must admit that the voice in which he sang the andante of the Swiss mountaineer's chorus resembled a reed pipe more than a hautboy; but, to make amends when he reached the presto, his voice, a rather good bass, struck the horse's ears with such force that the latter ...

— Gerfaut, Complete • Charles de Bernard

... has Conrad. He seldom indulges, as does Theophile Gautier, in the static paragraph. He is ever in modulation. There is ebb and flow in his sentences. A typical paragraph of his shows what might be called the sonata form: an allegro, andante, and presto. For example, the opening pages of Karain (one of his best stories, by the way) ...

— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

Words linked to "Andante" : slow, piece, musical passage, music, musical composition, piece of music, passage, pacing, composition, opus, tempo