Definitions

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  • adverb music Very slowly.

Etymologies

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Borrowing from Italian adagissimo, superlative of adagio.

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Examples

  • Music theory I want a piece to slow down (immediately, not gradually) to adagissimo but then accelerando to the original tempo in the space of a bar.

    Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories 2008

  • _adagissimo_, and _lentissimo_ -- indicating the very slowest tempo used in rendering music.

    Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

  • _larghissimo_ (superlative of _largo_) _adagissimo_ (superlative of _adagio_) _lentissimo_ (superlative of _lento_)

    Essentials in Conducting Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

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