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‖ rallenˈtando Music.|rallenˈtando|
[It., pres. pple. of rallentare: see relent.]
A musical direction indicating that the time is gradually to be made slower. Also transf.
1811in Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3). 1861Geo. Eliot Let. 6 Oct. (1954) III. 456 Our violoncello..is..a man who is all assent and perpetual rallentando. 1926Brit. Weekly 27 May 161/2 The beauty of the theme was heightened by a perfect rallentando. 1946A. Christie Come, tell me how you Live i. 24 Its [sc. the Orient Express's] tempo..gradually slows down in a rallantando [sic] as it proceeds eastwards. 1965A. T. Hatto Nibelungenlied 349 The strophe of the Nibelungenlied is normally a balanced and self-contained unit with a marked rallentando in the last half-line owing to its extra filled bar. 1978R. Donington in J. M. Thomson Future of Early Music in Britain 13 What sort of rallentandos and how many of them. |