allegretto

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allegretto

Music
1. (to be performed) fairly quickly or briskly
2. a piece or passage to be performed in this manner
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Allegretto for Czerny (and, arguably, Haydn) seems subject to no such restrictions.
He forgets that Beethoven's Allegretto finale to the Pastoral Symphony (3/4, arguably a one-in-a-bar minuet) is marked dotted minim = 60 (crotchet = 180) and that the Menuetto allegretto of his String Quartet op.
Hummel and Czemy also ask for the Menuetto Allegretto of the symphony no.
The minuets of Haydn and Mozart: goblins or elephants?

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