Stretto

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stretto \Stret"to\, n. [It., close or contacted, pressed.]
     (Mus.)
     (a) The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a
         fugue.
     (b) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an
         accelerated time. [Written also {stretta}.]


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