Klarinet Archive - Posting 001103.txt from 2004/03

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Osborne's Rhapsody - term question
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 02:51:43 -0500

Two dictionaries show "stentendo" as well as '"stentando":

===== New Harvard Dictionary of Music:

Stentando - labored, halting

Stentendo - Stretching out, slowing

Slentando - Becomng slower

===== Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music

Stentare - to play in a laborious way. So stentando, 'laboring',
'retarding'

Stendendo - 'extending', i.e. spacing the notes out - rallentando
["-do" is not a typo]

Slentando - 'slowing', i.e. the same as rallentando

===== New College Encyclopedia of Music:

Stentando - "laboring", i.e. holding back each note in a passage.
Hence equivalent to molte ritenuto

Stentendo - (not listed)

Slentando - becoming gradually slower

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