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Rallentando
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rallentando
Music becoming slower

Rallentando 

in musical notation, a term designating a smooth, gradual slowing of tempo. It is synonymous with ritardando and close in meaning to ritenuto.



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In song, the prosodic (intonational and emotional) aspects of everyday language--the ups and downs of pitch, pauses or rests, stresses or accents, crescendos and diminuendos of dynamics, accelerandos and rallentandos of tempo--are exaggerated (lengthened and otherwise emphasized), patterned, repeated, varied, and so forth--made special.
While invaluable in more experimental works, such as Penderecki's early symphonies and cello works, the introduction of a new method for indicating accelerandos and rallentandos in this case is totally unnecessary and seems, like the quarter-tones, an afterthought.
 
 
 
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