He followed this rhetorical question with the same two notes, ritardando, played four quaver chords, then a bar which disrupted one's expectations by the introduction of a rest and a pair of semiquavers, and very shortly broke into cascades of chorded and unchorded semiquavers that left Pelagia open-mouthed. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
The last three or four syllables of the Epistle are chanted more slowly, ritardando at the end. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
The guitar builds up with ascending chords over a ritardando, the drums go out of time, and Dio just wails on the vocals. From Wordnik.com. [Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website] Reference
During our two rehearsal sessions, we spent quite a bit of time on the drastic tempo changes, from the I Tempo, to allargando, to ritardando to molto ritardando; all within the last two measures of the piece. From Wordnik.com. [Violinist.com] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt]
A melting ritardando; thereafter, by means of a crescendo, it enters its true sphere, and proceeds to unfold its real nature. From Wordnik.com. [On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,] Reference
It is obviously the delicate duty of the executants to indicate the character of the new movement with an appropriate modification of tempo -- i.e., to take the notes which immediately succeed the Adagio for a link, and so unobtrusively to connect them with the following that a change in the movement is hardly perceptible, and moreover so to manage the ritardando, that the crescendo, which comes after it, will introduce the master's quick tempo, in such wise that the molto vivace now appears as the rhythmical consequence of the increase of tone during the crescendo. From Wordnik.com. [On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,] Reference
Did you read that in harmony with ritardando?. From Wordnik.com. [Andy Skelton] Reference
Or a momentary ritardando in Leoncavallo's song. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
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