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accelerando

[ UK /ɐksˌɛləɹˈændə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a gradually increasing tempo of music
    my ear will not accept such violent accelerandos
ADVERB
  1. with increasing speed
    here you must play accelerando
ADJECTIVE
  1. (music) gradually increasing in tempo

How To Use accelerando In A Sentence

  • “Well, there’s this thing I learned in music theory called accelerando,” I offered. I slept with Joey Ramone
  • By most all accounts the evening was a success, with one local critic lauding the orchestra's exciting accelerandos and heart-stopping rubatos.
  • He used liberal vibrato and took many liberties in phrasing using ritards, accelerandos and tenutos over important structural notes.
  • It breaks out again _vivacissimo accelerando_ when Miss Somehow Good
  • The big three can still be relevant, mind you; I suspect Asimov’s was essential in bootstrapping Charles Stross into being the decade’s pre-eminent SF writer when it published the short stories that would eventually become the Hugo-nominated novel Accelerando. Marketing the Big Three, Part 2
  • 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 ’.
  • I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls. Moe Tucker
  • By most all accounts the evening was a success, with one local critic lauding the orchestra's ‘exciting accelerandos and heart-stopping rubatos.’
  •   She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled. Moe Tucker
  • Then another identical (but slightly more intense, somehow - more of an accelerando?) chorus, and we're done.
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