Definition of Larghetto

1. Noun. (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio.

Category relationships: Music
Generic synonyms: Composition, Musical Composition, Opus, Piece, Piece Of Music

2. Adjective. (of tempo) less slow and broad than largo.
Similar to: Slow

Definition of Larghetto

1. a. & adv. Somewhat slow or slowly, but not so slowly as largo, and rather more so than andante.

Definition of Larghetto

1. Adjective. (music) Slower than adagio but not as slow as largo; nearly andantino. ¹

2. Noun. The larghetto tempo. ¹

3. Noun. A composition or movement to be played larghetto. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Larghetto

1. [n -TOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Larghetto

largenesses
largening
largenose
largens
larger
larger-than-life
larger bindweed
larger than life
larges
largess
largesse
largesses
largest
larget
largets
larghetto (current term)
larghettos
larghissimo
largifical
largiloquent
largish
largition
largo
largos
lari
lariat
lariat ether
lariated
lariating
lariats

Literary usage of Larghetto

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1800)
"Now larghetto is certainly flower than andante larghetto, yet the quavers in the air are always performed full as quick ss the ..."

2. The Musical World (1882)
"CONTENTS OF BOOK I. PRATER Arcadelt ANDANTINO D major Batiste larghetto ... Beethoven larghetto Weber ANDANTE SOSTENUTO Mendelssohn CONTENTS OF BOOK VIII. ..."

3. Catalogue of the Music in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge by Arthur Henry Mann, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1893)
"The first movement is printed larghetto, here it is written as 'Andante larghetto,' the word Adagio being crossed out. At the bottom of this first page (p. ..."

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