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rubato

[ UK /ɹuːbˈɑːtə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a flexible tempo; not strictly on the beat

How To Use rubato In A Sentence

  • They are sensitive to the sense of struggle and resignation in this dramatic movement and their rubato, though fluid, never damages the integrity of the underlying pulse.
  • These are done with all kinds of rubatos, rallentandos, underlining, and overacting.
  • At some moments the soloist's rubato might have seemed overly attenuated, but it would be curmudgeonly to complain, particularly in the light of his ravishingly beautiful treatment of sequential passages.
  • By most all accounts the evening was a success, with one local critic lauding the orchestra's exciting accelerandos and heart-stopping rubatos.
  • Rubato is used very sparingly, and forward flow is not compromised for the sake of expression.
  • Students were able to hear and see specifically the beat on which the artist took a rubato in the phrase or where a crescendo began and how the musical lines were woven together.
  • Author C. Palmer examined three aspects of timing in piano performance that are not explicitly notated in the score: chord asynchronies, rubato patterns and legato/staccato patterns.
  • 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 ’.
  • He shows how frequently this principle is misunderstood by the inexperienced, who seem to think that rubato means breaking the time; whereas true rubato is the _bending_ of the time, but not _breaking_ it. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers
  • Philip warns, however, that while references to rhythmic freedom are common they ‘give no positive information about what actually happens to the rhythm during a rubato passage’.
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