rit. or ritard.
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adagio Ritardando ... the term 'adagio' is a tempo, not the act of slowing down.
it means that the director/drum major will tell you when to play the next note in that measure(s) and watch carefully because the director/drum major will tell you when to go back to regular time and rit is short for something i just forgot so instead of rit i say ritard
In music, senza ritardando means without slowing, in other words keep the tempo.
The term is Ritardando.
From the Harvard dictionary of Music: poco means ' little', and ritardando means "gradually lackening in speed' ( or, slowing down ). SO,it means a small--not very much- slowing up of the tempo.