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From volume 3 of the work.

2593307A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — RibattutaGeorge GroveGeorge Grove

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).

$\relative b'' { \time 4/4 \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f b2:8 cis2\sfp b2:8 cis2\sfp | b cis\sfp | b4.\f cis8 \repeat unfold 3 { b4. cis8 } \repeat unfold 8 { b( cis) } b4 }$

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

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