largo

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lar·go / ˈlärgō/ Mus. • adv. & adj. (esp. as a direction) in a slow tempo and dignified in style.• n. (often Largo) (pl. -gos) a passage, movement, or composition marked to be performed in this way.

Largo

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Largo. ( Handel) Title universally applied to the many spurious, if pleasing, instr. arrs. of the aria Ombra mai fù (which in fact is marked larghetto), from Handel's opera Serse.

Largo

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Lar·go / ˈlärˌgō/ a resort city in west central Florida, southwest of Clearwater; pop. 65,674.

largo

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largo (It.). Broad. Slow, dignified in style; largo di molto, very slow and dignified, etc.