This is used to play swift, 3/8 dance music, slow airs (regrets) and other styles.

With a slow, casual air he rested his right elbow on the counter and turned to look at Digby.

She has quite a lot of wetted surface area which makes her relatively slow in light air.

Often, she floated a melody like a traditional Irish slow air above an undertow of moody funk.

An easy demonstration of this is any attempt to notate a slow air on the musical stave.

When he was satisfied he began to play, a slow sad air.

While the image showed his fingers moving in a blur, Jimmy was disappointed to hear the sound track playing a slow air.

This included writing down slow airs for printed scores - a skill which later proved important.

Séamus was a master of the slow air, knowing how to decorate long notes with taste and discreet variation.

At times a song will be sung or a slow air played by a single musician between sets.