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for my mom
my mom, the other day, said she’d
looked up adagio in the dictionary,
submitted, as well, andante, and
allegro
well, that took long enough, I
thought, but concluded that we all
get the information we need in our
own good time, and it’s never, ever,
too late
they’re all tempi, of course, adagio
is slow, from ad agio in Italian, in
English, at ease, the other two are
incrementally faster
the adagio doesn’t usually stand
alone, it is too somber a pace to
immediately attract attention, it
therefore mostly fits into other
compositions that have a more
vigorous, a more engaging,
introduction, usually as its
second movement
minor, a work of only one segment,
which indeed would’ve been part
of a trio sonata, purportedly, had
Albinoni lived to complete it
the rule is not fast, Beethoven
an adagio, for instance, boldly and
unforgettably, indeed immortally
stops my breath, from Schubert’s
masterpiece for string quintet, his
R ! chard