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rubato Music 1. flexibility of tempo in performance 2. to be played with a flexible tempo How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Let's do the easy one--rubato, or tempo rubato, for Italian "robbed time. The rubato (23) is illustrated by Liszt's famous evocation of a tree with the immobile trunk and the branches moving with the wind. Psalm,'" Kahn writes, "in fact reveals little structure at all: no metric consistency, no time sig- nature to speak of-completely, purely rubato. |
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