Accelerando

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Accelerando ( Italian for getting faster , abbreviation: accel. ) And stringendo (Italian for pressing together , abbreviation: string. ) Are musical performance designations that prescribe a gradual acceleration of the tempo . The opposite instruction is ritardando .

literature

  • Wieland Ziegenrücker: General music theory with questions and tasks for self-control. German Publishing House for Music, Leipzig 1977; Paperback edition: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, and music publisher B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-442-33003-3 , p. 55 ( accelerando ) and 192 (“gradually getting faster”).

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