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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Adagio cantabile e sostenuto

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68304Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — Adagio cantabile e sostenutoJohn Weeks Moore

Adagio cantabile e sostenuto. (I.) This phrase implies that the air or movement to which it is prefixed is to be performed in a slow time, and with a graceful. ornamental, and sustained expression.