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Agitated, restless — with anxious, troubled energy.
Agitato implies emotional turbulence — trembling, restless, unable to settle. Use it for passages of anxiety, desperation, or inner conflict. Rhythmically, agitato often means rapid figuration, syncopation, and rhythmic instability.
Chopin's Ballade No. 1 — the agitato development sections contrast dramatically with the lyrical opening theme.
Agitato is one of 228 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary, where every definition is written around how composers actually use the word.
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