Crossword-Solution: RITARDANDO
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ritardando | a. | Retarding; -- a direction for slower time; rallentado. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with RITARDANDO (5)
The last bar of the orchestral ritornel must be played a good deal ritardando, so as to make the tempo of this postlude even more majestic where the trumpets enter, by which means also the violins will be enabled to bring out the lively staccato figures strongly and clearly.
Evidently the question, with regard to execution, here is: how can this phenomenon (the new Allegro theme) be made to arise naturally from the sad and sombre close of the Adagio, so that its abrupt appearance shall prove attractive rather than repellant? Very appropriately, the new theme first appears like a delicate, hardly distinguishable dream, in unbroken pp, and is then lost in a melting ritardando; thereafter, by means of a crescendo, it enters its true sphere, and proceeds to unfold its real nature.
With deliberate slowness, _ritardando con molto sentimento,_ I worked my way to the familiar restaurant.
This place I should play a very little slower, though without a striking _ritardando_; then a little faster here; do you think it ought to be played _crescendo_ or _diminuendo_? We must try in this variation to present nicely shaded little pictures.
Some composers (_e.g._, Beethoven and Couperin) have evidently had this same distinction in mind between _rallentando_ and _ritardando_ on the one hand, and _ritenuto_ and _ritenente_ on the other, considering the former (_rall._ and _rit._) to indicate a gradually slackening speed, and the latter (_ritenuto_ and _ritenente_) to indicate a definitely slower rate.
Quotes with RITARDANDO (1)
Clive was losing sensation in his feet, and as he stamped them the rhythm gave him back the ten note falling figure, ritardando, a cor anglais, and rising softly against it, contrapuntally, cellos in mirror image. Her face in it. The end.