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Andante

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andante Music
1. (to be performed) at a moderately slow tempo
2. a passage or piece to be performed in this manner
Andante 

in music, a moderately slow tempo; also a musical piece (for example, Beethoven’s Andante favori in F major) or a section of a piece performed in this tempo. It is often the tempo for the second section of a symphony, quartet, sonata, and such.
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For the Andante had begun--very beautiful, but bearing a family likeness to all the other beautiful Andantes that Beethoven had written, and, to Helen's mind, rather disconnecting the heroes and shipwrecks of the first movement from the heroes and goblins of the third.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
 
 
 
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