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stretto
- /ˈstɹɛtəʊ/
Rhymes with -ɛtəʊ
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Italian stretto. Doublet of strait and strict.
noun strettos · stretti
- 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 ingenuitie
- An acceleration in the tempo of an opera that produces an ending climax.
adverb
- With gradually increasing speed.
adjective
- 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…
Talk about this word "stretto." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/stretto. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. stretto. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/stretto "stretto." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/stretto.Cite this
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