Adagios

Any of those adagios are very difficult to truncate, because one chord is just held long enough to evoke the emotion before changing to the next. ❋ Mike Ragogna (2011)

One of the adagios has the sole appearance in Beethoven's oeuvre of a harp, used quite idiomatically. ❋ Rodney Punt (2010)

He leans over, yawns, and funk vibrates from his armpits, adagios from his mouth, staccatos from his feet in yellow-orange waves of tone and melody. ❋ Rae Bryant (2010)

But it is the ballet's canonical dance texts -- variations, adagios, the last act Grand Pas de Deux -- that have survived with little alteration and that once again proved their timeless veracity, justifying the production and showcasing some of ABT's leading dancers. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

All electronic devices might be rendered useless, but amidst the twittering of fauna and the rustling of flora, you can still listen to minuets, sonatas, and adagios throughout the park. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Although Ms. Haïm did occasionally exaggerate tempi, making the adagios less supple and anguished than they could be, she did splendid work with the modern Lyric Opera Orchestra (augmented by recorders and continuo players), which had sharp 18th-century-style articulation and provided a elegant framework for this remarkable production. ❋ Unknown (2007)

By moonlight in the garden she recited all the passionate rhymes she knew by heart, and, sighing, sang to him many melancholy adagios; but she found herself as calm after as before, and Charles seemed no more amorous and no more moved. ❋ Unknown (2003)

To the evils of poverty he is now a stranger; his _adagios_ and _cantabiles_ have procured him the protection of nobles; and, contrary to the poor shirtless mendicant of the Muses that we left in a garret, he is arrayed in a coat decorated with frogs, a bag-wig, solitaire, and ruffled shirt. ❋ John Trusler (N/A)

In ethereal 'fantasies' and divine 'adagios,' he won the Lily to rest its snowy cup upon his manly heart. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is self-love which gives us those flat, empty _adagios_, those cold, keen runs and embellishments. ❋ Various (N/A)

Many of his _adagios_ want nothing but _words_ to be excellent pathetic opera songs. ❋ George Hart (N/A)

Or were the adagios mournfully predicting perils, coming disaster and death? ❋ May Kellogg Sullivan (N/A)

The whole entertainment, music, colours, costumes, songs, dances, and all, is as nicely arranged in its crescendos and decrescendos, its prestos and adagios as a Mozart finale. ❋ Carl Van Vechten (1922)

"You're as [sensual] as an Adagio" "[Play] the Adagio [piece]" ❋ Lorelei Van Peborgh (2008)

Adagio dazzle ❋ Purpstar615 (2023)