Allegro Definition

ə-lĕgrō, ə-lāgrō
allegros
adjective
In a quick, lively tempo, usually considered to be faster than allegretto but slower than presto. Used chiefly as a direction.
American Heritage
Fast; faster than allegretto but not so fast as presto.
Webster's New World
(music) Describing a passage having this mark.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
noun
An allegro passage or movement.
American Heritage
An allegro movement or passage.
Webster's New World
A succession of fast jumps performed as an exercise in ballet.
American Heritage

(music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto.

Wiktionary
(music) In more traditional use, an expressive marking indicating lively or happily, not necessarily quick or fast.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adverb
(music) Played in a quick, lively tempo.
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Other Word Forms of Allegro

Noun

Singular:
allegro
Plural:
allegros

Origin of Allegro

  • Italian from Latin alacer lively

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian allegro.

    From Wiktionary

Allegro Sentence Examples

  • The final section returns to the mood of the opening allegro with massive chords and suspensions drawing the work to its powerful conclusion.

  • Using Allegro Some parts of Linux console Allegro need root privileges.

  • For the people who use vanilla Allegro, we will provide a set of " reference " DLLs.

  • At the words "Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum" the music plunges suddenly into a slow series of some of the most sublime and mysterious modulations ever written, until it breaks out as suddenly into a vivace e allegro of broad but terse design, which comes to its climax very rapidly and ends as abruptly as possible, the last chord being carefully written as a short note without a pause.

  • Now, such subtleties seem as if they must be unconscious on the part of the composer; yet here Bach is so far aware of his reasons that his vivace e allegro is an arrangement of the second chorus of a church cantata, Gott man lobet dich in der Stille; and in the cantata the chorus has introductory and final symphonies and a middle section with a da capo!

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