rubato
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- noun
- /ruˈbɑːtoʊ/
- Specialized
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rubato
- The Andante allowed Gerstein at last to display a nice singing tone and warm rubato, and the clangorous finish for the whole ensemble brought cheers from the audience.
- rubato and phrasing
Examples
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We must teach students to deal with musical realities such as rubato, phrasing, arpeggiated harmonies, metrical ambiguity, timbre, and register, to name a few.
Academic text (2006) -
An advanced objective is: "Each student will perform a piece using his or her own approach to phrasing and rubato."
Academic text (1991) -
Tonight the music must be rubato.
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Once those portions are achieved, the teacher will be able to model and assign the next steps, such as the use of rubato.
Academic text (2012) -
On Sundays when she displayed her skill at the Methodist Church, she performed the hymns rubato.
Fiction book (1991) -
It was very strong playing, yet I felt the use of rubato was at times excessive—to the point where the pulse was lost.
Blog text (29) -
Another fruitful direction for study is the role of the performer and the use of expressive devices, such as rubato and dynamics, in music in diverse genres and cultures.
Academic text (1998) -
Expressive sections incorporated a range of dynamics (piano to forte), articulation (pedal), and flexibility in tempo (rubato).
Academic text (2013) -
At times, the act of creating drama via the chorale genre might impinge on accepted performance practices, but the aim here is to prod students into becoming more flexible as performing musicians and more sensitive to ebb and flow in tempo, phrasing, and rubato.
Academic text (2001) -
In the performance, the pianist used rubato to create an emotional depth that captivated the audience.
How Flexible
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rubato comes from the Italian verb rubare, which means 'to steal', and musicians called it 'stolen time'. So when a player uses rubato, they 'steal' a little time, speeding up or slowing down, to make the music more expressive.