lento
Americanadjective
adverb
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of lento
1715–25; < Italian < Latin lentus slow
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Example Sentences
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The sounds of D-minor resonate from an ambient synth pad before migrating lento to A-minor.
From Time ● Aug. 9, 2017
Here are pomp and pageantry, cockney airs, the chimes of Big Ben, and a luminous lento movement that the composer called "Bloomsbury Square on a November afternoon."
From Time Magazine Archive
She recites poetry where she should radiate it; and goes through the role as though following a score marked presto or lento, ff. or pp.
From Time Magazine Archive
He never finished the second movement: two minutes and 35 seconds into the lento, the music is cut off in mid-measure, mute testimony to catastrophe, as eloquent as any note ever written.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Gutmann studied the C sharp minor Nocturne with Chopin, the master told him that the middle section—the molto piu lento in D flat major—should be played as a recitative.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
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