stretta

[ stret-uh ]

noun

, Music.

, plural stret·te [stret, -ey], stret·tas.

1. a concluding passage played at a faster tempo.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stretta¹

1875–80; < Italian; feminine of stretto

Example Sentences

Competitors include the Stretta system made by Mederi Therapeutics that uses radiofrequency energy to remodel muscles in the digestive system.

From Reuters

Another flank movement of the "ewig Weibliche," this time in the seductive key of B major, made mock of by the strong man of music who, in the stretta quasi presto, views his early disorder with grim and contrapuntal glee.

From Project Gutenberg

To the former had originally belonged the drinking chorus, the burlesque proclamation of the Baron, and the duet "Un soave non so ch�;" to the latter the duet "Zitti zitti," the sestet and the stretta of the finale.

From Project Gutenberg

Tu sola tu sei la Speranza Che tenni qua stretta sul cor.

From Project Gutenberg

Washington Irving relates a veritable ghost story concerning a fatal encounter which took place in this notorious Strada Stretta, as related to him by an old Knight who once lived upon the island of Malta, and whom he met somewhere in Italy.

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