noun
- a concluding passage in a fugue in which the subject and answer are brought in at closer intervals than before
Usage: music
Examples
- The composer built tension through a complex stretto in the final section.
- Bach’s fugues often feature elaborate strettos near the end.
- The stretto created a sense of urgency as the voices overlapped.
- Students analyzed the stretto to understand how the themes interweaved.
- The organist executed the stretto with remarkable precision.
- In the stretto, each voice entered before the previous one finished.