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