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German
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian allegretto.
Noun
Allegretto n (strong, genitive Allegrettos, plural Allegrettos or Allegretti)
- allegretto
2020, Werner Telesko, Susana Zapke, Stefan Schmidl, Beethoven visuell, Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, →ISBN, page 25:So ist es vorwiegend das Moment der Entzeitlichung, das durch die Musik Beethovens ausgedrückt werden soll: allen voran durch das Allegretto der 7. Symphonie, das in so unterschiedlichen Filmen wie Zardoz (USA/IRL 1974), Irréversible (F 2002), The Fall (USA/IN 2006), The King's Speech (USA/UK 2010) oder X-Men: Apocalypse (USA 2016) den jeweiligen Dramaturgien, oft unterstützt durch Zeitlupe, einen immer gleichen, schicksalshaften Charakter verleiht.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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