Andante

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Andante (Italian for "walking") is a musical performance designation that prescribes a moderately slow tempo ("calmly walking", "calmly" or "walking"). The tempo is somewhere between adagio and moderato . Variants of the adjective andante are più andante ("more walking"), thus faster, and meno andante ("less walking"), thus slower.

Andante is a relatively new tempo designation, appeared only after 1650 and prevailed in the late baroque . According to historical sources, his affect applies in the sense of a uniform and clearly articulated lecture.

The andante is also a generic name for movements in sonatas . The diminutive Andantino also describes a brief andantine (as andantino ) in the sense of something calm or something calm .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wieland Ziegenrücker: General music theory with questions and tasks for self-control. German Publishing House for Music, Leipzig 1977; Paperback edition: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, and Musikverlag B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-442-33003-3 , pp. 55 and 193.
  2. ^ Klaus Miehling : The tempo in baroque and pre-classical music. Wilhelmshaven 2003, ISBN 978-3-7959-0590-3 , p. 291.
  3. ↑ Andante. In: The Big Brockhaus . Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1953, vol. 1, p. 267.
  4. ↑ Wieland Ziegenrücker: General music theory with questions and tasks for self-control. German Publishing House for Music, Leipzig 1977; Paperback edition: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, and Musikverlag B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-442-33003-3 , pp. 55 and 193.