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‖ stretto, adv. and n. Mus.|ˈstrɛtto|
Pl. stretti |ˈstrɛtti|, also strettos.
[It. = narrow: see strait a.]
A. adv. A direction to perform a passage, esp. a final passage, in quicker time.
1740J. Grassineau Mus. Dict. 240 Stretto, shortened, is often used to signify that the measure is to be short and concise, therefore quick. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Stretto, in the Italian music, is sometimes used to signify that the measure is to be short and concise, and consequently quick. In this sense it stands opposed to largo. 1801Busby Dict. Mus. 1883Grove Dict. Mus. III. 739/2.
B. n.
a. (See quot. 1869.) Also transf.
1854Cherubini's Counterpoint 65 The stretto is..one of the essential requisites of a fugue. 1869Ouseley Counterpoint xxi. 166 In a fugue the stretto is an artifice by which the subject and answer are, as it were, bound closer together, by being made to overlap. 1898G. B. Shaw Perf. Wagnerite 3 In classical music..there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points. 1962–3Sight & Sound Winter 19/1 Finally, there are the flashbacks and then the stretto of flashbacks, as if, at the end, Colin Smith were still attempting to make up his mind. 1963J. Wiesenfarth H. James v. 104 The coda begins in Chapter XII and ends with Chapter XIV in a stretto. 1979UCT Studies in English (Univ. Cape Town) Sept. 38 Pope mimics the convention: The Rape of the Lock is threaded with premonitory phrases which he gathers into a stretto as the climax draws near.
attrib.1887Banister Mus. Anal. 133 Alternating such fragments, or bringing them together, stretto fashion.
b. stretto maestrale [cf. maestrale] (see quot. 1946).
1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms s.v. Maestrale, Stretto maestrale, a term sometimes applied to the stretto of a fugue when in canon. 1910E. Prout Anal. J. S. Bach's Forty-Eight Fugues 13 As the subject appears in a complete form in all the groups of the entries now under notice,..we have here an example of a stretto maestrale. 1946E. Blom Everyman's Dict. Mus. 672/1 Stretto maestrale,..a S[tretto] in which the fugal subject not only appears in close, overlapping entries, but is carried through from beginning to end at each entry. 1948G. Oldroyd Technique & Spirit of Fugue ix. 143 It is a specimen of ‘stretto maestrale’ in which a phrase in its full length is repeated in canon throughout all the strands. 1959J. V. Cockshoot Fugue in Beethoven's Piano Mus. v. 68 This four-fold entry foreshadows the final section, with an effect of stretto maestrale. |