accelerando
- n a gradually increasing tempo of music
my ear will not accept such violent accelerandos - s gradually increasing in tempo
- r with increasing speed
here you must play accelerando
- Tape recorder in hand, he simply camps at the seashore or in a rain forest, and lets Mother Nature herself compose an accelerando of breaking waves or a pizzicato polka of storm .
- As exhilarating as the final accelerando of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony were the dancelike body movements with which Ozawa conducted it.
- An expanse of heads nodded rhythmically until a galloping accelerando brought the audience to their feet.