Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, hastening the pace: virtually the same as
accelerando or stringendo.
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- adverb music In a rushing or hurrying manner. In the manner of pressing onwards.
Etymologies
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Borrowing from Italian affrettando.
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Examples
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_Accelerando_, _affrettando_ [Transcriber's Note: Corrected misspelling "affretando" in original] (this term implies some degree of excitement also), _stringendo_, _poco a poco animato_.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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_Crescendo ed affrettando_ -- gradually louder and faster.
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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