||Sos`te*nu"to (?), a. [It.]
(Mus.) Sustained; -- applied to a movement or passage the
sounds of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of
the time; also, to a passage the tones of which are to be somewhat
prolonged or protacted.
||Sos`te*nu"to (?), a. [It.]
(Mus.) Sustained; -- applied to a movement or passage the
sounds of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of
the time; also, to a passage the tones of which are to be somewhat
prolonged or protacted.