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Webster 1913 Edition

Stretto

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Stret′to

,

Noun.

[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

.]