Accelerando is a musical metronome that can speed up, allowing you to practice your music at progressively faster tempos. For example, you could set it to play 60 beats per minute for 4 bars, then automatically speed up by 10 beats per minute, and so on.
Gradually accelerating the movement.
(Ital.) : Growing faster; accelerating. There's a significant accelerando in the coda of the last movement of Beethoven's Fifth.
A symbol used in musical notation indicating to gradually quicken tempo. [Go to source
An acceleration or speeding up of the tempo of a particular aria, chorus or ensemble.
a gradually increasing tempo of music; "my ear will not accept such violent accelerandos"
gradually increasing in tempo
with increasing speed; "here you must play accelerando"
Gradually increase the tempo.
Italian tempo marking meaning to gradually accelerate or speed up
(it.) - Gradually increasing the speed. [back
Gradually faster; a term in general use to show that the music should be played at an increasing speed.
An Italian tempo (speed) marking which instructs the performer to increase in speed.
accelerating the time, gradually faster and faster.
Achieved by gradually accelerating or getting faster
( Accel.) Increase speed gradually
speeding up (abbreviation: accel.)
(accel.) - Gradually getting faster
Italian. (accel). Directs the musicians to play with gradually increasing tempo.
Getting faster. This example remains steady in pulse, then slowly speeds up toward the end. Example: Delibes, Sylvia Suite, "Pizzicato" Real Audio: 28K | 56K | About this album
Getting gradually quicker.
Getting gradually faster.
