A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Ribattuta

RIBATTUTA (re-striking), an old contrivance in instrumental music, gradually accelerating the pace of a phrase of two notes, until a trill was arrived at. Beethoven has preserved it for ever in the Overture to Leonore 'No. 3' (bar 75 of Allegro).

See too another passage further on, before the Flute solo. [See Trill.]

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