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adagietto

a. (context music English) Describing a passage having this mark. adv. (context music English) More lighthearted than adagio. n. 1 (context music English) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played more lighthearted than adagio. 2 (context music English) A passage having this mark.

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And in the Fifth Symphony, one of those in which he called for no vocal performers, he nevertheless managed to vary and expand the conventional suite by preceding the first allegro with a march, and separating and relieving the gargantuan scherzo and rondo with an adagietto for strings alone.