A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Ribattuta
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RIBATTUTA (re-striking), an old contrivance in instrumental music, gradually accelerating the pace of a phrase of two notes, until a trill was arrived at. Beethoven has preserved it for ever in the Overture to Leonore 'No. 3' (bar 75 of Allegro).
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