Accelerando

Word ACCELERANDO
Character 11
Hyphenation ac cel er an do
Pronunciations /æksɛləˈɹændəʊ/

Definitions and meanings of "Accelerando"

What do we mean by accelerando?

Gradually accelerating or quickening in time. Used chiefly as a direction. adverb & adjective

An accelerando passage or movement. noun

With gradual increase of speed: a direction in music, indicating that a passage is to be played with increasing rapidity.

Gradually accelerating the movement. adjective

A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed. noun

A passage having this mark. noun

With a gradual increase in speed adverb

With increasing speed adverb

Gradually increasing in tempo adjective

A gradually increasing tempo of music noun

A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.

A passage having this mark.

(by extension) Accelerating or exponential advancement or development (of a thing).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Accelerando

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The word "accelerando" in example sentences

“Well, there’s this thing I learned in music theory called accelerando,” I offered. ❋ Mickey Leigh (2009)

Unsatisifed, i nixed two of the segments and kept the accelerando and started fiddling with its placement. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled. ❋ Unknown (2008)

  Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando. ❋ Unknown (2008)

  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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

  She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled. ❋ Unknown (2008)

According to accelerando. org, Accelerando will be available as an eBook under a Creative Commons license in June. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Accelerando is now available for downloading from www. accelerando.org. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The word “accelerando” is a term in musical notation that directs the performer to gradually speed up the tempo. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He knew exactly how to play a piece accelerando, starting very slowly and pompously, and gradually speeding up until all the dancers were tangled hysterically in each others 'flailing limbs. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)

Toothaches can play it staccato, glissando, accelerando, prestissimo, and above all fortissimo. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Again, in the fine song _Der Asra_, by Rubinstein, the musical, as well as the dramatic, effect of the poem is heightened by the use of the _accelerando_, which interprets with musical vividness the impetuous avowal by the slave of his passion for the princess, after his calm answer to her questions as to his name and birthplace. ❋ W. E. Haslam (N/A)

Not only are singers allowed to walk and gesticulate on the stage without paying any attention to the time, but also no shade of expression, dynamic or motor, of the orchestra -- crescendo, decrescendo, accelerando, rallentando -- finds in their gestures adequate realization. ❋ Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (N/A)

She noticed his large, protuberant Adam's apple throbbing with the accelerando of pleasure, and a thaw set in between them. ❋ Fannie Hurst (1928)

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