largos
- plural of largo.
Example Sentences
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Instead, he fashioned what became his characteristic symphonic architecture: sprawling largos, martial rhythms and jagged melodic intervals.
From Time Magazine Archive
The phrases are separated by frequent "rests," the "moderatos" have developed into "largos;" the "rubatos" are exaggerated, and finally this sweet-voiced boatswain falls asleep.
From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel
The Leclair sonata in D minor we have played some three hundred times; and its slow movement is one of the most beautiful largos I know of in all chamber music.
From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Martens, Frederick Herman
Tripping allegrettos sounded sweeter to the vulgar sense than the old largos of Pope Gregory the Great.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Brown, Theron
