Stringendo Definition

strĭn-jĕndō
adjective
Played with an accelerating tempo. Used chiefly as a direction.
American Heritage
With accelerated tempo, as toward a climax.
Webster's New World
noun

A passage in music to be played gradually faster; a section of music with in which the tempo slowly increases.

Wiktionary

Origin of Stringendo

  • Italian gerund of stringere to draw tight from Latin streig- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian stringendo (“tightening").

    From Wiktionary

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