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
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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.
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_adagissimo_, and _lentissimo_ -- indicating the very slowest tempo used in rendering music.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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_larghissimo_ (superlative of _largo_) _adagissimo_ (superlative of _adagio_) _lentissimo_ (superlative of _lento_)
Essentials in Conducting Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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