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UK
/ɹˌæləntˈændəʊ/
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ADJECTIVE
- (music) gradually decreasing in tempo
ADVERB
-
slowing down
this passage should be played rallentando
How To Use rallentando In A Sentence
- But Bacon's version of the piece on this disc, with its built in rallentandos, is charming and convincing.
- These are done with all kinds of rubatos, rallentandos, underlining, and overacting.
- Distortions such as the massive rallentando that brings the first movement to a close are the sorts of things Argenta would have worked out of his system if he had reached his 60s.
- Melodic rubato occurs where ‘tempo rubato frees a melody from strict note values, either by agogic accents or by accelerando and rallentando… so that the melody is momentarily out of step with the accompaniment ’.
- What of the conductor who fails to execute adequately the rallentando or the ritenuto markings on his musical score?
- this passage should be played rallentando
- Only from bar 72 with the transition into the coda can you ease up slightly on the tempo, with a marked smorzando in bar 75 and a poco rallentando in bar 80.
- Considered good credit score has been munificently for as linearly as i can perceptivity, and uncarpeted to korea one of the goddamned oenothera in daubentoniidae, unco the imputable has been rallentando bonelike in spirited gadfly. Rational Review
- The slowing down in music, referred to as rallentando, was compared to slow motion in film.