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stretto

stretto


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stretto  \Stret"to\,  n.  [It.,  close  or  contacted,  pressed.] 
  (Mus.) 
  a  The  crowding  of  answer  upon  subject  near  the  end  of  a 
  fugue. 
  b  In  an  opera  or  oratorio,  a  coda,  or  winding  up  in  an 
  accelerated  time.  [Written  also  {stretta}.]