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n. Music A close succession or overlapping of statements of the subject in a fugue, especially in the final section.

n. Music A final section, as of an opera, performed with an acceleration in tempo to produce a climax. Also called stretta.

n. The presence of two close or overlapping statements of the subject of a fugue, especially towards the end.

n. An acceleration in the tempo of an opera that produces an ending climax.

ad. With gradually increasing speed.

adj. Having gradually increasing speed.

n. The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue.

n. In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time.

n. In music: In a fugue, that division in which the entrances of the answer are almost immediately after those of the subject, so that the two overlap, producing a rapidly cumulative effect.

n. In dramatic music, a quickening of the tempo at the end of a movement for the sake of climax.

"My own only really substantive reference for him is L'opera architettonica e urbanistica di Armando Brasini dall'urbe Massima al Ponte sullo stretto di Messina published in 1979, an enormous and rather flimsy paperback edition of which I purchased in Rome when I was studying there."

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