accelerando

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Among other points to be noted is the fact that sudden transition from repose to restless activity calls for an accelerando, while the reverse requires a rallentando It is absolutely imperative for one who would interpret music to cultivate the memory.

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

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  • Four Sacred Pieces and took an accelerando in a passage not so marked. —  Audiophile Audition Headlines
  • When comfortable with this, add a slight crescendo and hint of accelerando during the 4 th beat while thinking 16ths. —  Violinist.com
  • 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. —  Moe Tucker
  • She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled. —  Moe Tucker
  • It may be made in the tempo by means of the retard, accelerando, the hold, etc. It may also be made in the quality of the tone by using the various shades from bright to somber The basis of phrasing then, may be found in legato, sostenuto and contrast. —  The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing
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  1. Italian, present participle of accelerare, to hasten, from Latin accelerāre; see accelerate.

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  1. Italian, present participle of accelerare, from Latin accelerare, hasten: see accelerate.
 

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