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Definition of Lentando
1. a. Slackening; retarding. Same as Rallentando.
Definition of Lentando
1. Adjective. (music) (alternative form of rallentando) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lentando
1. becoming slower -- used as a musical direction [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lentando
Literary usage of Lentando
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boston Academy's Collection of Church Music: Consisting of the Most by Boston Academy of Music, Lowell Mason (1836)
"lentando. 3E: 2. Our harps, that, when with joy \ve sung, Were wont their tuneful
parts to bear, With silent strings neglected hung, On willow trees that ..."
2. Davidson's Universal Melodist: Consisting of the Music and Words of Popular by George Henry Davidson (1853)
"lentando. . ft -e- low the bush in our kail - yard : We'll a - wa to A ...
And lentando. there we'll no be seen, Whare the trees and branch - es «ill be our ..."
3. The Standard Music-reader: For Public and Private Schools : a Progressive by Benjamin Jepson (1889)
":=a=^ ^+F=F lentando 5 ;i ^ Teach- ers, teach- ers, we turn to you, School-mates,
school-mates, we wish ±: ymn well, Class-mates, class-mates, ..."
4. The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music: Being a by Handel and Haydn Society (Boston, Mass.), Mass Handel and Haydn Society (Boston, Lowell Mason (1830)
"... 6 6 37 - 54 66 u ti •'• 7 /î\ moonbeam steals, And half ere - a - lion's face
reveals— And half ere - a - lion's face re - veals. ЛХ /ÎN lentando. Dim. ..."
5. The Principles of Expression in Pianoforte Playing by Adolph Friedrich Christiani (1885)
"A note, exceptionally.repeated several times, exacts at the beginning of a phrase
an accelerando; at the end, a ral- lentando. " b. ..."
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