Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective Gradually accelerating or quickening in time. Used chiefly as a direction.
- noun An accelerando passage or movement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- With gradual increase of speed: a direction in music, indicating that a passage is to be played with increasing rapidity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mus.) Gradually accelerating the movement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed. - noun music A passage having this mark.
- adverb music with a gradual
increase inspeed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with increasing speed
- adjective gradually increasing in tempo
- noun a gradually increasing tempo of music
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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“Well, there’s this thing I learned in music theory called accelerando,” I offered.
I slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh 2009
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“Well, there’s this thing I learned in music theory called accelerando,” I offered.
I slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh 2009
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“Well, there’s this thing I learned in music theory called accelerando,” I offered.
I slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh 2009
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“Well, there’s this thing I learned in music theory called accelerando,” I offered.
I slept with Joey Ramone Mickey Leigh 2009
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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.
Moe Tucker 2008
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Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando.
Moe Tucker 2008
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Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando.
Moe Tucker 2008
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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.
Moe Tucker 2008
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She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled.
Moe Tucker 2008
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