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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. Gradually accelerating or quickening in time. Used chiefly as a direction.
  2. n. An accelerando passage or movement.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. With gradual increase of speed: a direction in music, indicating that a passage is to be played with increasing rapidity.

Wiktionary

  1. n. music A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.
  2. n. music A passage having this mark.
  3. adv. music with a gradual increase in speed

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Mus.) Gradually accelerating the movement.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. with increasing speed
  2. adj. gradually increasing in tempo
  3. n. a gradually increasing tempo of music

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from Italian accelerando, from Latin accelero. (Wiktionary)
  2. 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.”

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  • “  Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando.”

    Fictionaut: Moe Tucker

  • “  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.”

    Fictionaut: Moe Tucker

  • “  She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled.”

    Fictionaut: Moe Tucker

  • “Unsatisifed, i nixed two of the segments and kept the accelerando and started fiddling with its placement.”

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  • “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.”

    Fictionaut: Moe Tucker

  • “Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando.”

    Fictionaut: Moe Tucker

  • “She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled.”

    Fictionaut: Moe Tucker

  • “According to accelerando. org, Accelerando will be available as an eBook under a Creative Commons license in June.”

    May 2005

  • “Accelerando is now available for downloading from www. accelerando.org.”

    Accelerando

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