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Definition of Ritardando
1. Adjective. Gradually decreasing in tempo.
Definition of Ritardando
1. a. Retarding; -- a direction for slower time; rallentado.
Definition of Ritardando
1. Adverb. (music) Gradually decelerating the tempo of a piece of music, especially at the end of the piece. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ritardando
1. [n -DOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ritardando
Literary usage of Ritardando
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)
"A suddenly slower tempo is not a ritardando. I do not refer to those general
changes of tempo which occur at the beginning of a new movement, or sometimes ..."
2. The Principles of Expression in Pianoforte Playing by Adolph Friedrich Christiani (1885)
"A suddenly slower tempo is not a ritardando. I do not refer to those general
changes of tempo which occur at the beginning of a new movement, or sometimes ..."
3. Music (1893)
"ritardando implies a slackening of speed by degrees, and accelerando a gradual
... ritardando and accelerando can be applied to any part or portion of ..."
4. Expression in Singing: A Practical Study of Means and Ends by Henry Stuart Kirkland (1916)
"An accelerando is a passage in which each succeeding pulse is made gradually
shorter than its predecessor, while in a ritardando each succeeding pulse is ..."
5. The Dove of Peace: Comic Opera in Three Acts by Walter Damrosch, Wallace Irwin, Abraham Wolf Lilienthal (1912)
"... Hildegarde cresc. e ritardando Talked and talked and talked and talked and
Sang- and sang* and sang- and sang and cresc. e ritardando talked and tal ..."
6. Tempo Rubato and Other Essays by Constantin von Sternberg (1920)
"In conjunction with the rubato question I should like to say a word about its
first cousin, the occasional, annotated or prescribed ritardando or ritenuto, ..."
7. Hymns and Songs for the Sunday School by Harold Lewars (1914)
"... and be joy - ful, be joy - ful, be joy-ful, be joy- fill, О earth. -I—h
ritardando L- - . ... ritardando Li I я -• ~ F- -G*- -в"-- л tempo ..."
8. On Musical Execution: An Attempt at a Systematic Exposition of the Same by Otto Klauwell (1890)
"Here the latter consideration gains the day, being supported by A 12, which
requires a ritardando before beginning the Repetition in a Sonata; ..."
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