expressive style typical of some early music in which volume levels shift abruptly from soft to loud and back without gradual crescendos and decrescendos often by changing the number of instruments playing each part
Terraced dynamics
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Retardando
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to hold back, holding back, held back (gradual change of tempo)
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Ritardando; to hold back, holding back, held back (gradual change of tempo)
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Ritardando; to hold back, holding back, held back (gradual change of tempo)
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to hold back, holding back, held back (gradual change of tempo)