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Very slow.
Très lent in French music often implies not just slowness but suspended time — as if the music is floating. Messiaen uses it for his most mystical passages.
Messiaen's "Quatuor pour la fin du temps," fifth movement ("Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus") — Très lent, with the cello melody stretching toward infinity.
Très lent 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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