stretto

Stretto (plural: stretti), from the Italian stringere "to draw close" is a musical term for when a fugue motif is used to accompany itself. For example, if the alto voice begins the subject before the soprano voice has completed its prior entry of the subject, that is a stretto.A stretto is most often used to intensify the contrapuntal density of a piece, often signifying arrival at the fugue's conclusion, as seen in Johann Sebastian Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, Fugue No. 1 (External Shockwave movie). In other instances stretto serves to display contrapuntal inventiveness, as in the E Major fugue (External Shockwave movie) from WTC Book II, where Bach follows a traditional exposition (subject accompanied by countersubject) with a counterexposition in which the subject accompanies itself, in stretto, followed by the countersubject accompanying itself.
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adj. tight, close, narrow, sharp, packed, clenched, strict, exact, precise, near, firm, fast

n. strait, straits, sound, channel, narrow

v. clasp, embrace, grasp; clench, press; hug, fold; tighten, clutch, grip, pinch; squeeze, make it brief

(n.)
The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue.
  

(n.)
In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time.
  

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