Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Gradually accelerating or quickening in time. Used chiefly as a direction.
- n. An accelerando passage or movement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- With gradual increase of speed: a direction in music, indicating that a passage is to be played with increasing rapidity.
Wiktionary
- n. music A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.
- n. music A passage having this mark.
- adv. music with a gradual increase in speed
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Mus.) Gradually accelerating the movement.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with increasing speed
- adj. gradually increasing in tempo
- n. a gradually increasing tempo of music
Etymologies
- Borrowing from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero. (Wiktionary)
- Italian, present participle of accelerare, to hasten, from Latin accelerāre; see accelerate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
““Well, there’s this thing I learned in music theory called accelerando,” I offered.”
“ Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando.”
“ I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls.”
“ She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled.”
“Unsatisifed, i nixed two of the segments and kept the accelerando and started fiddling with its placement.”
“I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls.”
“Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando.”
“She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled.”
“According to accelerando. org, Accelerando will be available as an eBook under a Creative Commons license in June.”
“Accelerando is now available for downloading from www. accelerando.org.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘accelerando’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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MUSIC - ALL TERMS
With focus on non-classical styles, but not excluding terms of the latter.
banjo, accompaniment, acoustic bass, bass guitar, bass clef, ground, brass, cornet, Mute, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, arrangement and 866 more...
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harmony of the spheres
tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, subtonic, leading tone, progression, sonata, concerto, allegro and 247 more...
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Faintheart's Words
onomatopoeia, no, terrafactive, word, faint, heart, joy, quixotic, karla, half, amp, tardis and 181 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Beautiful Music
a cappella, accelerando, accompagnato, adagio, ad libitum, agitato, aleatory, alla breve, allegro, allemande, alto, andante and 548 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 257 more...
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Musical Terms
Various terms, common and uncommon, relating to musical scores.
largo, andante, adagio, lento, moderato, allegro, vivace, presto, fermata, appoggiatura, acciaccatura, trill and 56 more...
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melodious, sexy words
as the title says
rhythm, harmony, sound, a cappella, accelerando, accent, crescendo, espressione, ostinato, timbre, improvisation, duet and 7 more...
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Musical Theory and Notation
Words you might find in written music
forte, piano, fortissimo, pianissimo, moderato, pizzicato, staccato, glissando, ritardando, legato, accelerando, allegro and 40 more...
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xaviera's Words
accelerando, flibbertigibbet, circumlocution, deluge, syncopation, bedswerver, obfuscate, protonostalgia, lithe
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