Crossword-Solution: RALLENTANDO 11 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Not to disturb the main characteristic, delicacy, it is, therefore, necessary slightly to hold back the tempo (the moving figuration sufficiently expresses passionate haste), thus the extreme nuance of the main tempo, in the direction of a somewhat grave 4/4 time, should be adopted here, and, to do this without a wrench (i.e., without really disfiguring the general character of the main tempo), a bar is marked poco rallentando, to introduce the change.

She had been seated at the piano during this conversation, and now resumed her playing--executing a sonata of Beethoven's with faultless precision and the highest form of taught expression; so much emphasis upon each note--careful _rallentando_ here, a gradual _crescendo_ there; nothing careless or slapdash from the first bar to the last.

Among other points to be noted is the fact that sudden transition from repose to restless activity calls for an accelerando, while the reverse requires a rallentando.

The melody has an impressive rallentando of dotted semibreves to the refrain, "Peace, be still," after the more rapid notes of the three-line stanzas.

After the beautiful harmony through the seven lines, the choral reverently softens under the rallentando of the closing bars, and dwelling on the awe-inspiring syllables, solemnly dies away.