lento
/ˈlɛntəʊ
/adverb & adjective Music
(Especially as a direction) slow or slowly.For example, the song ‘Dear Eileen, I'm Going to Leave You’ is written in minor with a molto lento tempo....
- And indeed, just before the end, there is a strategic, if quiet, B minor chord filling an entire lento bar.
- No. 2 is the longer by 13 minutes, and notable for the emergence of a poignant viola tune in the big lento finale, and for a shocking last bar.
noun (plural lentos)
A passage or movement marked to be performed slowly.Listen to the glorious outpouring of the lento, and the dance that is the finale....
- The final lento illustrates the ‘becoming’ principle most clearly.
Origin
Italian.
Rhymes
- presensitise
- presensitization
- presensitize
- present
- presentability
- presentable
- presentableness
- presentably
- present arms
- presentation
- presentational
- presentationally
- presentation copy
- presentation day
- presentation department
- presentationism
- presentationist
- Presentation of Christ
- presentation plate
- presentation silver
- presentation software
- presentative
- presentatively
- present company excepted
- present-day