The effect of ritardando is already built into the long notes."

I once asked my stage director what would happen if I made an unexpected ritardando.

Then a ritardando leads directly to a scherzo-like section which remains until the end.

Where you look please at the word retinue which is figure two it means ritardando a bit slower.

Here, he decided on reflection, the ritardando and the pedaling mark were in order, along with a new low E, for resonance.

There is a ritardando leading into the repeat of the final theme, seguing to the piece's conclusion.

One ritardando resulted in a changed basic tempo.

On the other hand, when adjectives and adverbs appear in clusters, they can produce a necessary ritardando.

That half of the party returns to Ritardando to reunite with the rest of the party.

Mr. Barenboim knows when to draw back, impose a sudden decrescendo or ritardando.

(The mechanism winds down at the ritardando, Bb.

Even the ending is unconventional, with a simulated ritardando in the last bars with the pedal silent.

You improvise within the frame of possibilities, to make the performance fresher: not same place, same ritardando."

In the face of his huge ritardando in the symphony's final measures, the strings maintain a melodic surge without which the music would fall apart.

The first movement may also have been a shade too slow, although Mr. Levine significantly avoided excess ritardando.

Boury frequently used many tempo indications such as accelerando and ritardando in the first half of this movement which occur very frequently.

Hardly a significant cadence goes by without a big ritardando, and phrase after phrase is poked, tugged and fluffed.

A rising line indicates accelerando, a descending line represents ritardando, and the line vanishes altogether when there is a rest.

This process falls into ten phases, ending with a ritardando of clicking and rustling sounds resembling the "very bright crackling of a fire".

The young German conductor Jun Markl, though overly free in some moments of expressive ritardando, led a well-paced and lithe performance.

This section ends with a ritardando (slow down), so the listener is prepared for a sudden fast and short swirl in the violins when the bridge cracks.

In the penultimate phrase, "o'er the land of the free," he made a carefully calibrated ritardando and boldly sustained the fermata on the climactic high note.

A heavy ritardando at the end of the "Spring Round Dances" gave way to an excessive burst of speed at the start of the next dance.

Using a click track, does not really allow a natural shifting of tempo, that would be vital for expressive phrasing and instances of fermata, accelerando, ritardando, etc.