'stretta' definitions:

Definition of 'stretta'

From: 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.] [1913 Webster]