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Stretto

//ˈstɹɛtəʊ// adj, adv, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having gradually increasing speed. not-comparable

    "So that over and above the public components – holidays, tourist attractions – there are private meanderings, linked to the climate as if this spell were a stretto passage in the year’s fugue: haphazard weather, aimless loves, unpredicted commitments…"

Adverb
  1. 1
    With gradually increasing speed. not-comparable
Noun
  1. 1
    The presence of two close or overlapping statements of the subject of a fugue, especially towards the end. countable, uncountable

    "In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points; there are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other ingenuities, which have, after all, stood or fallen by their prettiness as much as the simplest folk-tune."

  2. 2
    An acceleration in the tempo of an opera that produces an ending climax. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian stretto. Doublet of strait and strict.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian stretto. Doublet of strait and strict.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian stretto. Doublet of strait and strict.

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