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  • _Sempre lento malinconico assai_ -- always slowly and in a very melancholy style.

    Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

  • It was here that he found opportunities of observing the perilous intimacy between the Duke of Cività di Penna and his cousin -- _quel pazzo malinconico filosofo di Lorenzino.

    Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Ries also records a humourous scandal of an occasion when he found Beethoven flirting desperately with a fair unknown; Ries sat down at the piano and improvised incidental music to Beethoven's directions ” “amoroso,” “a malinconico” and the like.

    The Love Affairs of Great Musicians Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956 1903

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