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‖ allegro, a., adv., and n.
(It. alˈlegro, æˈlɛgrəʊ)
[It. allegro, irreg. repr. of L. alácrem for álacrem, acc. of álacer brisk.]
A. adj. In orig. It. sense: Lively, gay, merry.
1632Milton (title) L'Allegro.
B. adv. and adj.
1. Music. Brisk, lively, quick; one of the five grades of musical pace and character, being the quickest except presto. Used advb. in directions as ‘to be taken allegro,’ and adject. as ‘allegro time.’
1721Bailey, Allegro, a Term in Musick when the Movement is quick. 1752[see presto a.1]. 1963Auden Dyer's Hand 487 The tempo indication is allegro assai... The duet..is sung allegro assai.
2. Philol. Applied to a word or phrase conventionally shortened in actual speech.
1939L. H. Gray Found. Lang. iii. 65 Only words of very common use have these double forms (lento- and allegro- forms). 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics viii. 347 The reduction or abbreviation of the forms of frequently used words (‘allegro forms’ like howd'yedo, and yes'm for yes madam).
C. n. Mus. A movement in allegro time.
1683Purcell Sonnata's III Parts Pref., Allegro, and vivace, a very brisk, swift, or fast movement. 1754Ld. Chesterfield in World 14 Nov. 588 His adagio's, his allegro's..and his jiggs. 1777J. Skinner Tullochg., Their allegros and a' the rest, They canna please a Scottish taste, Compared wi' Tullochgorum. 1875Ouseley Mus. Form xi. 52 The first movement of a symphony is usually an allegro, a tolerably brisk piece. 1876G. B. Shaw How to become Mus. Critic (1960) 10 The first portion is an allegro agitato. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xi. 125 With no other composer than Mendelssohn does there appear so frequently in the Allegro movements the indication con fuoco or appassionato. |
