accelerando
/əkˌsɛləˈrandəʊ
/ /əˌtʃɛləˈrandəʊ/Music
adverb & adjective
(Especially as a direction) with a gradual increase of speed.
noun (plural accelerandos or accelerandi /əkˌsɛləˈrandi/ /əˌtʃɛləˈrandi/)
An accelerando passage: the first movement’s long accelerando...
- This is one of the least metronomic recordings I know, and yet the concerto holds its shape because a basic pulse has been maintained, in spite of the accelerandi and rallentandi.
- By most all accounts the evening was a success, with one local critic lauding the orchestra's ‘exciting accelerandos and heart-stopping rubatos.’
- You have to watch out for the small accelerandi.
Origin
Italian.
Rhymes
- thrower
- throw good money after bad
- throw-in
- throwing stick
- throw in one's lot with
- throw in the towel (or sponge)
- throw money at
- throw off
- throw off at
- throw of the dice
- throw oneself at
- throw oneself into
- throw oneself on (or upon)
- throw oneself on someone's mercy
- throw one's hand in
- throw one's hat in (or into) the ring
- throw one's hat in the ring
- throw one's money about/around
- throw one's toys out of the pram
- throw one's weight about (or around)
- throw one's weight behind
- throw (or cast or shed) light on
- throw (or catch) someone off balance
- throw (or chuck)a seven
- throw (or knock) someone for a loop