(a. & adv.) Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
(n.) A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps it was coincidence, but when somebody in an apartment in Copacabana, four blocks from the beachside fan park, began playing Barber's Adagio for Strings on a loop, it seemed entirely in keeping with the general mood.
(2) Joni Mitchell's A Case Of You, Elvis Costello's Shipbuilding and Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, from the film Platoon, have similar effects.
(3) An all-Russian programme followed, with arias from Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, and a Shostakovich's tango from the Golden Age ballet was only outdone by an elegant adagio from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, featuring principal ballerina Svetlana Zakharova.
(4) The movie is slower, darker and more cynical than anything Aaron Sorkin would write, and West Wing addicts might well find this a little bit adagio compared to the galloping allegro of Sorkin's rat-a-tat style.
(5) His programmes in the orchestra's Mahler, Vienna and the Twentieth Century series were both eclectic and logical; on one evening, the Adagio from the Tenth Symphony and Debussy's Nocturnes shared an elusive tonal incandescence that will never be forgotten by those who heard it.
Andante
Definition:
(a.) Moving moderately slow, but distinct and flowing; quicker than larghetto, and slower than allegretto.
(n.) A movement or piece in andante time.
Example Sentences:
(1) All 10 patients were treated consecutively and in a random order during 14 days with the following membranes: polyacrylonitrile (Filtral 12, Hospal), hemophan (GFS 120 Plus, Gambro, and Bio-Nephros HF Andante, Organon), polysulfone (F6, Fresenius), cuprammonium (AM50-BIO, Asahi) and cellulose acetate (Duo-Flux, Cordis-Dow).
(2) The experiments were carried out using capillary dialyzers of the Organon Technika firm, Andante H.F. type with 8 mu thickness of a Cuprophan capillary++ membrane and a dysfusion surface of 0.8 m2.
(3) Deficiency mapping indicates that Andante is located in the 1OE1-2 to 1OF1 region of the X chromosome, close to the miniature-dusky locus.
(4) These behavior genetic studies also indicate that an existing "rhythm" mutation known as Andante is an allele of the m-dy locus.
(5) In 22 patients cuprophane capillary dialyzers reutilized in turn with four sets of liquids were used four times (Andante type in 13 and TAF-12 in 9 patients).
(6) A new clock mutant, named Andante, has been identified on the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster.
(7) The sine oculis mutation, which eliminates the outer visual system, has no effect on the period of Andante.
(8) Analysis of locomotor activity rhythms reveals that Andante is semi-dominant, and Andante rhythms are highly temperature compensated.
(9) Andante also lengthens the periods of other clock mutants, including Clock, and alleles of the period locus.
(10) Andante lengthens the period of the circadian eclosion and locomotor activity rhythms by 1.5-2.0 hours.
(11) Whereas Andante flies have a dusky wing phenotype, dusky flies do not have an Andante clock phenotype.