Definitions
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- adverb music A direction in musical notation indicating that the musical piece should be played very fast and lively.
Etymologies
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Borrow from Italian allegrissimo, the superlative form of allegro
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Examples
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Florence, and cannot help presenting the most serious events in a boisterous allegrissimo, perhaps not without a malicious artistic sense of the contrast he ventures to present -- long, heavy, difficult, dangerous thoughts, and a TEMPO of the gallop, and of the best, wantonest humour?
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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_prestissimo_ (superlative of _presto_) _vivacissimo_ (superlative of _vivace_) _allegrissimo_ (superlative of _allegro_) _prestissimo possibile_ (hypersuperlative of _presto_)
Essentials in Conducting Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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