FR sans ralentir tempo modification common Support my free tools
How is sans ralentir played?
Continue in the same basic tempo through the marked passage. Resist the natural tendency to slow at a cadence, ending, difficult change or diminuendo, while still shaping articulation and phrase within the pulse. The direction is corrective rather than accelerative: do not add speed, simply prevent the motion from sagging until a new tempo instruction or the passage ends.
How does sans ralentir sound?
Forward motion stays steady through the passage.
In context
Ravel writes sans ralentir at the close of Jeux d’eau, where scholarly commentary treats it as an unequivocal warning against rhetorical slowing. The phrase keeps forward motion and pulse steady precisely where a performer might instinctively relax. It is written out in full; the neighboring form sans rall. abbreviates sans rallentando and is not evidence for abbreviating sans ralentir.
Equivalent terms
- EN without slowing
- DA uden at sænke tempoet