Strettos is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.
You can make 136 anagrams from letters in strettos (eorssttt).
1745-55; Italian: literally, narrow Latin strictus. See strict, strait
The first and last quartet end with a thoroughly worked-out fugue, complete with stretto and inversions.
The chief feature in this brilliant passage is a piling up of the theme in stretto form (see measures 148-153).
One of its rules was that every fugue should have a stretto.
A stretto is a net, and if one is not constantly on the watch, he is caught in its meshes.
He was thinking more of his prima donna than of Elcia when he wrote that stretto.
The scena ends with a stretto, a concluding passage taken in more rapid tempo in order to enhance the effect.
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