(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.
Moderato
Definition:
(a. & adv.) With a moderate degree of quickness; moderately.