Crossword-Solution: STRETTO
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stretto | n. | The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue. |
| Stretto | n. | In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STRETTO | anagram | TOTTERS |
We have 14 clues for the answer “STRETTO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Aria passage with a quickening tempo | 1 answer |
| Close overlap of fugue voices | 1 answer |
| Close overlapping of fugue voices | 1 answer |
| Closing passage of a fugue: Mus. | 1 answer |
| Feature of a fugue | 1 answer |
| Fugue feature | 1 answer |
| More rapid: Music. | 1 answer |
| Musical overlap | 1 answer |
| Overlapping part of a fugue | 1 answer |
| Part of a fugue | 1 answer |
| performed with an acceleration in tempo to produce a climax | 1 answer |
| CLOSING part (mus.) | 2 answers |
| FUGUE part | 4 answers |
| ANY OF NUMEROUS LIZARDS WITH OVERLAPPING RIDGED POINTED SCALES | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with STRETTO (5)
During this scene, highly amusing to a Frenchman, while la Tinti was recalled eleven times to receive alone the frantic acclamations of the house,--Genovese, who was all but hissed, not daring to offer her his hand,--the doctor made a remark to the Duchess as to the _stretto_ of the duet.
This splendid treatment of the voices, recurring three times, ends in the last strophe with a _stretto_ in G major of absolutely overpowering effect.
The melody seems literally to wail, and reaches its greatest pitch of intensity at the stretto." For Karasowski it is a "real gem, and alone would immortalize the name of Chopin as a poet." It must have been this number that impelled Rubinstein to assert that the Preludes were the pearls of his works.
After this a few bars in 6/4 time, fiercely wild (stretto) at first, but gradually subsiding, lead to the repeat in B flat major of the second subject--the first subject does not appear again in its original form.
She plunged into her apostrophe with most self-sacrificing vigor at the beginning of the scene, and was prodigal in the use of her voice in its early moments; but when the culmination of its passion was reached, in what would be called the stretto of the piece in the old nomenclature, she could not respond to its increased demands.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).