Sections are marked&colon; Moderato, Allegretto, Lento, Tempo I and Allegretto. Moderato Cantabile is a novel by Marguerite Duras. Bizet draws very closely from Gounod's "Allegretto moderato" in the Symphony in D. The movement is marked "moderato non troppo". It is based on the 1958 novel "Moderato cantabile" by Marguerite Duras. The first movement, "moderato assai" (very moderate), contains a typical twelve-bar blues progression. The piece is in G major and common time, marked "Andante moderato". The motet is marked "Allegro moderato" and begins calmly in homophony. No. 6 - Sonata in D Major &colon; I. "Allegro Moderato", by Michel Corrette. "Moderato Cantabile" was very popular, selling half a million copies. This leads into the Allegro moderato, which is a monothematic sonata form. This leads back to a restatement of the "meno mosso e moderato" section. Several numbers (vocal and instrumental) combine triple metre and a slow to moderato tempo. Handel's "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato" (1740) is based partly on this poem. Also, all soloists sing in the "il Moderato" section.