Lexic.us

Definition of Accelerando

1. Noun. A gradually increasing tempo of music. "My ear will not accept such violent accelerandos"

2. Adjective. Gradually increasing in tempo.

3. Adverb. With increasing speed. "Here you must play accelerando"

Definition of Accelerando

1. a. Gradually accelerating the movement.

Definition of Accelerando

1. Noun. (context: music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed. ¹

2. Noun. (context: music) A passage having this mark. ¹

3. Adverb. (music) with a gradual increase in speed ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Accelerando

1. [n -DOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Accelerando

acca accable accaroid resin accas accede acceded accedence accedences acceder acceders

accedes accedie acceding accel accelerable accelerando (current term) accelerandos accelerans accelerant accelerants

acceleratable accelerate accelerated accelerated conduction accelerated depreciation accelerated erosion accelerated graphics port accelerated hypertension accelerated idioventricular rhythm accelerated motion

Literary usage of Accelerando

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of Expression in Pianoforte Playing by Adolph Friedrich Christiani (1885)
"The few writers who, to my knowledge, have written to any purpose on the application of accelerando and ritardando are: 1. ..."

2. Music (1893)
"Gradual changes in the even flow of time are the ritard- ando and accelerando. Ritardando implies a slackening of speed by degrees, and accelerando a ..."

3. Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music: A Description of the Character and by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1904)
"accelerando et crescendo. -llll- ly-ly-ly-ly-ly Ely-yyyyyyy- In this very common song, which is confined to the narrow compass of a minor third, ..."

4. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"Instances of an extended accelerando occur in Mendelssohn's chorus, ' 0 ! great is the depth,' from • St. Paul' (26 bars), and in his Fugue in E minor, op. ..."

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