stretto
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
副词 adv.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The presence of two close or overlapping statements of the subject of a fugue, especially towards the end.
— 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.
- An acceleration in the tempo of an opera that produces an ending climax.
形容词 adj.
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Having gradually increasing speed.
— 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…
副词 adv.
- With gradually increasing speed.
词源
词源 1
Borrowed from Italian stretto. Doublet of strait and strict.
词源 2
Borrowed from Italian stretto. Doublet of strait and strict.
词源 3
Borrowed from Italian stretto. Doublet of strait and strict.
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