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Definition of Accelerando
1. Noun. A gradually increasing tempo of music. "My ear will not accept such violent accelerandos"
2. Adverb. With increasing speed. "Here you must play accelerando"
3. Adjective. Gradually increasing in tempo.
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
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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