LUSINGANDO, or LUSINGHIERO, literally ‘flattering
’ or ‘coaxing,
’ whence its musical meaning comes to be ‘in a soft tender manner,
’ resembling Amoroso in character, except that the latter is generally used at the beginning of movements, and the former as applying only to a short passage. Beethoven uses it in the Quartet, op. 131, in the slow movement (no. 4), where the entry of the second subject is marked ‘Andante moderato e lusinghiero
’. Lusingando is a very favourite...
