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larghetto

[ lahr-get-oh ]

adjective

  1. somewhat slow; not so slow as largo, but usually slower than andante.


noun

, plural lar·ghet·tos.
  1. a larghetto movement.

larghetto

/ lɑːˈɡɛtəʊ /

adjective

  1. to be performed moderately slowly
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a piece or passage to be performed in this way
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of larghetto1

1715–25; < Italian, diminutive of largo largo
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Word History and Origins

Origin of larghetto1

Italian: diminutive of largo
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Example Sentences

A composer writes a larghetto when he feels something like writing a largo but isn't, on the whole, quite up to it.

Have you never shed a furtive tear—excuse my old-fashioned romanticism—over the bars of the B major Larghetto in the same work?

There is an example of the latter in Chopin's Sonata I (the larghetto movement).

The alto then takes up a larghetto in six-eight time, key D minor.

The details of the larghetto must be studied (say, at the organ).

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