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What is word for gradually slowing down in music?

Anonymous

∙ 15y ago

Updated: 8/29/2023

adagio

Ritardando ... the term 'adagio' is a tempo, not the act of slowing down.

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∙ 14y ago

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Ritardando, or commonly expressed as (rit. . . . . . . . . .) to show slowly slowing down. Rallentando is the same.

Wiki User

∙ 15y ago

There are different "shades"; Lento, Adagio, Andante....

Wiki User

∙ 14y ago

Ritardando in music means to gradually get slower. Its polar opposite is

accelerando, which means to gradually get faster.

Wiki User

∙ 12y ago

One possibility: lentando.

Wiki User

∙ 15y ago

Rallentando.

Wiki User

∙ 16y ago

decrescendo or diminuendo

Wiki User

∙ 14y ago

Retardando

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∙ 13y ago

Ritardando

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∙ 4y ago

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