andante
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1. andante - Noun
2. andante - Adjective
3. andante - Adverb
4. andante - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto.
A movement or piece in andante time.
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Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.
They weave a slow andante as in sleep, Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white; With blue and lidless eyes at watch they keep A treachery of silence; infinite.
this passage must be played andante
A lyrical andante based on Tosca's act 1 motif, this is perhaps the opera's best-known aria, yet was regarded by Puccini as a mistake; Greenfield, p. 136 he considered eliminating it since it held up the action.
Eiffel died on 27 December 1923, while listening to Beethoven's 5th symphony andante, in his mansion on Rue Rabelais in Paris, France.
After Bach comes Mozart’s Andante for mechanical organ, K616, arranged by Meyer.