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Broadening — getting slower and usually louder simultaneously.
Allargando means the music grows both slower and grander. Use it for triumphant arrivals, majestic codas, or moments where the music should feel like it is expanding in all dimensions. It is the opposite of stringendo.
Elgar's "Enigma" Variations, Variation XIV (E.D.U.) — the coda allargando transforms the theme into a massive, triumphant peroration.
Allargando is one of 228 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary, where every definition is written around how composers actually use the word.
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