See Also: stretto(dictionary)

stretto (iou)



stretto adverb & noun. M18.
[Italian, lit. 'narrow'.]
Music.
A. adverb. A direction: with gradually increasing speed (esp. with ref. to a final passage). M18.
B. noun. Pl. -tti [-ti], -ttos. A fugal device in which the subject entries follow closely in succession, each subject overlapping with the next. Also, = STRETTA. M19.
stretto maestrale a stretto of a fugue played in canon.