Rubato

(definition) by Webster 1913 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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