Definition of Agitato

1. a. Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.

Definition of Agitato

1. Noun. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a restless agitated style. ¹

2. Noun. (music) A passage having this mark. ¹

3. Adverb. (music) Played in a restless agitated style. ¹

4. Adjective. (music) Describing a passage having this mark. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Agitato

1. fast and stirring -- used as a musical direction [adj]

Medical Definition of Agitato

1. Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner. Origin: It, agitated. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Agitato

agistors
agists
agita
agitable
agitas
agitate
agitated
agitated depression
agitatedly
agitates
agitating
agitation
agitational
agitations
agitative
agitato (current term)
agitator
agitators
agitatos
agitatrices
agitatrix
agito
agitographia
agitolalia
agitophasia
agitpop
agitprop
agitprops
agkistrodon
aglaonema

Literary usage of Agitato

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

1. A Complete Dictionary of Music: To which is Prefixed a Familiar Introduction ...by Thomas Busby by Thomas Busby (1811)
"... a species of melody or modulation, in which the notes proceeded by contiguous degrees. agitato ALLEGRO, or Allegro agitato. ..."

2. Cambyses, Or, The Pearl of Persia: An Operatic Cantata in Four Parts for by W. J. D. Leavitt, Charles Felton Pidgin (1881)
"g: Allegro agitato. Here, woman, fool ! Time to defy my will. Thy lover here did wish to make thee wife, But Ahriman will get thee ..."

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