retenant
Definition of the French term retenant in music:
- holding back, keeping back, stopping
- holding, keeping, reserving, booking
- remembering
Language
French
Combinations
French musical terms that include retenant:
- en retenant – while holding back, while keeping back, while stop...
Musical examples
Music scores that include retenant:
- Claude Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin (1909‑1910) Page 2
- Claude Debussy: La plus que lente (1910) Page 5
- Claude Debussy: Syrinx (1913) Page 2
Related terms
French musical terms related to retenant:
- arrêt – stop...
- arrêter – to stop, to cut off, to halt...
- arrêtez – stop (imperative), cut off (imperative), halt (imp...
- bouché – stopped (close the bell of the instrument with the...
- bouchez – stop (instruction to close the bell of the instrum...
- quittez – leave...
- retenez – hold back, keep back, stop (imperative)...
- retenir – to hold back, to keep back, to stop...