Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Played with an accelerating tempo. Used chiefly as a direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, pressing or accelerating the tempo: usually with a crescendo. Also
incalzando .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mus.) Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
passage inmusic to beplayed gradually faster; a section of music with in which thetempo slowly increases.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Italian, gerund of stringere, to draw tight, from Latin; see streig- in Indo-European roots.]
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From Italian stringendo ("tightening").
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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
mitosis commented on the word stringendo
pushing together.
i love that.
October 11, 2007
seanahan commented on the word stringendo
Funny, I've never heard this direction before.
October 11, 2007