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What are the hypernyms for Ritardando?
A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
Other hypernyms:
tempo marking, Conducting gesture, Conducting instruction, musical term.
What are the opposite words for ritardando?
Ritardando, a musical term meaning gradually slowing down the tempo of a piece, has a few possible antonyms depending on the context. If the opposite of ritardando is meant to be a gradual increase in tempo, then accelerando (or simply accel.) would be an appropriate choice. On the other hand, if the intention is to suddenly jump back to the original tempo, the term a tempo is commonly used. Lastly, if a completely different mood or style is desired, changing the time signature or tempo marking altogether could be the most fitting antonym for ritardando.
What are the antonyms for Ritardando?
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Usage examples for Ritardando
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.
"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1"
With deliberate slowness, ritardando con molto sentimento, I worked my way to the familiar restaurant.
"Old Calabria"
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.
"On Conducting (Ueber das Dirigiren): A Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music"
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