Allegretto

Allegretto (Italian; a little fast, a little moved, lively, cheerful, happy ) is a musical tempo designation . As a diminutive of Allegro , it calls for a somewhat slower tempo, somewhere between Allegro moderato and Andante con moto . Often a light and graceful character is intended by this regulation, but this is not mandatory: Allegretto can - like allegro  - also function as a character-neutral tempo designation.

Leopold Mozart wrote in his violin school published in 1756 :

“ Allegretto is a little slower than Allegro , generally has something pleasant, something polite and funny, and a lot in common with the andante . So it has to be presented in a polite, dandy, and joking manner: what kind of joke and joke can be more clearly identified by the word gusto , both at this and at the other tempo . "

literature

• Willibald Gurlitt, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (Hrsg.): Riemann Musiklexikon . Material part . 12th edition. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1967, p. 26 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Leopold Mozart : Attempt a thorough violin school . 2nd Edition. 1770, p. 49