Stretch

On a keyboard or fingerboard, a wide interval whose tones are to be taken simultaneously by the fingers of one hand. Stret’ta, commonly Stret’to (It.; Fr. strette; Ger. Eng’ fahrung.) ‘* Narrow, drawn together". 1. A division of a fugue (usually a final development, for the sake of effect) in which subject and answer follow each other in such close succe ion as to -overlap...S. maestra’le, one constructed in strict canon...Ada stretta, in, or after the manner of, a stretto... Andante stretio, same as andante agitato—2. A concluding pa age taken, to enhance the effect, in faster tempo.