stretto

/stret-oh/US // ˈstrɛt oʊ //UK // (ˈstrɛtəʊ) //

关闭,密切,结束,靠近

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural stret·ti [stret-ee], /ˈstrɛt i/, stret·tos.Music.
- : the close overlapping of statements of the subject in a fugue, each voice entering immediately after the preceding one.

The first and last quartet end with a thoroughly worked-out fugue, complete with stretto and inversions.
The chief feature in this brilliant passage is a piling up of the theme in stretto form (see measures 148-153).
A stretto is a net, and if one is not constantly on the watch, he is caught in its meshes.
One of its rules was that every fugue should have a stretto.
The middle-section, the stretto-work, and the powerful ending, give the fugue the right to exist.