Rubato

created by Webster 1913

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:46:44

Ru*ba"to (?), a. [It.]

Robbed; borrowed.

Tempo rubato. [It.] Mus. Borrowed time; -- a term applied to a style of performance in which some tones are held longer than their legitimate time, while others are proportionally curtailed.

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syncopation	Antiphonal	Mensuration	Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice ne la miseria
The Woolgathered Letter	striptease	The Balkans	tempus fugit
How to appreciate jazz without really trying	malapropism	tempo	Triad
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