ritard
- a variation of rit..
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During a rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony, the NBC musicians made a ritard that was not marked in the score but was traditional.
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Requesting a brief ritard in the Mozart, he told the musicians that the passage should go "like a parent tugging a child away from a toy-store window as they walk along the street."
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