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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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Neumann again oversimplifies matters when he uniformly equates Tempo di Menuetto with Allegretto, or his conception of it, which he claims to mean |relaxed ease' and to have been 'anything but fast.' Allegretto for Czerny (and, arguably, Haydn) seems subject to no such restrictions.
8), calling these tempos |an ideal realization of the "Allegretto" idea.
Moreover, Neumann fails to mention that Mozart marks this movement Allegro (Allegretto in the first draft).
The minuets of Haydn and Mozart: goblins or elephants?

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