stringendo
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of stringendo
1850–55; < Italian, gerund of stringere to tighten < Latin ( see strict)
Example Sentences
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It leads by means of a stringendo bar to a brilliant Allegro con brio, a movement of which both the music and the technique remind one of Beethoven's bravoura style.
From The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development by Shedlock, J. S. (John South)
The Coda begins, in measure 306, with a shadowy outline of modulatory chords, as if slumbering forces were slowly awakening; and, becoming more crescendo and stringendo, reveals its full glory at the Pi� Allegro.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
A gradual acceleration accelerando affrettando stringendo poco a poco animato 2.
From Essentials in Conducting by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson
The closing bars suggest the stringendo passage and presto bars in the coda of the Scherzo of the "Choral Symphony."
From The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development by Shedlock, J. S. (John South)
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