"Allegretto" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... or bagpipe).—[3/4] [2/4] allegretto. Form 1. Always written over or under a pedal note, which is generally sustained to the end. It generally forms the second part (not period) ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell
... the inevitable suite of allegro, andante, scherzo, rondo; prescribed intermissions of a certain length; and added choruses and vocal solos to give the necessary relief to the long orchestral passages. In the Second, he placed between an allegretto and a scherzo a soprano setting of one of the lyrics out of "Des Knaben Wunderhorn," and concluded the work with a choral setting of one ode of Klopstock's. In the Third Symphony, he preceded the orchestral finale with an ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld |
