Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Agitato

68352Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — AgitatoJohn Weeks Moore

Agitato. (I.) This term signifies a rapid and violent, but broken and interrupted, style of performance, calculated to shake and surprise the hearer - a style adopted with propriety only when it is the composer's design to awaken the flurry and perturbation incident to irresolution and the conflict of opposing passions.