Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Music Played with an accelerating tempo. Used chiefly as a direction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In music, pressing or accelerating the tempo: usually with a crescendo. Also incalzando.
Wiktionary
- n. A passage in music to be played gradually faster; a section of music with in which the tempo slowly increases.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Mus.) Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.
Etymologies
- From Italian stringendo ("tightening"). (Wiktionary)
- Italian, gerund of stringere, to draw tight, from Latin; see streig- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“_Accelerando_, _affrettando_ [Transcriber's Note: Corrected misspelling "affretando" in original] (this term implies some degree of excitement also), _stringendo_, _poco a poco animato_.”
Lists
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strany, stragulum, strait, straggle, strand, strake, streak, stream, strawberry, streel, strawy, stratonic and 40 more...
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Music Words
Not all of them, obviously.
allegro, adagio, smorzando, fermata, plagal, ballade, scherzo, dolce, ritenuto, spiccato, sautille, cadenza and 17 more...
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mitosis's Words
pillaging, cacophony, seraph, callipygian, quixotic, mooncalf, strumpet, spleeny, rantipole, menagerie, tart, fuck and 13 more...
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seanahan Funny, I've never heard this direction before. Oct 11, 2007
mitosis pushing together.
i love that. Oct 10, 2007