Associations to the word «Rubato»

Wiktionary

RUBATO, noun. (music) A tempo in which strict timing is relaxed, the music being played near, but not on the beat

Dictionary definition

RUBATO, noun. A flexible tempo; not strictly on the beat.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope