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‖ ad libitum, advb. phr.|ˌæd ˈlɪbɪtəm|
[L. ad to + libitum pleasure, pa. pple. used subst. of libet it pleases.]
At one's pleasure; to the full extent of one's wishes, as much as one desires. In Music opposed to obbligato.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey ii. vi. 58 These may be contrived in Parallelograms, Squares, Circles..compassed and tricked ad libitum. 1671Locke Hum. Underst. (Draft B) (1931) §70 p. 139 Imperfect ideas, and consequently words, ad libitum by every particular man made use of for signs of those ideas. 1705Hickeringill Priest-Craft ii. i. 14 Afterwards comes another King..and quite contrary disannuls, ad libitum, the Acts of Uniformity and Conformity. 1724in Short Explic. For. Wds. Mus. Bks. 7. 1823 Harmonicon Mar. I. 40/2 Air, with accompaniments, ad libitum, for the flute, by T. A. Rawlings. 1845J. E. Warner Lessons in Music 200 Sometimes the movement is expressly committed to the taste of the performer by placing the term ad libitum..over the passage. 1848Lytton Harold I. i. ii. 38 To marry wives ad libitum. 1878E. J. Hopkins in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 20 An accompaniment..is said to be Ad libitum when..it is not essential to the complete rendering of the music. 1922Joyce Ulysses 691 Love's Old Sweet Song..open at the last page with the final indications ad libitum, forte, [etc.]. 1944W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. 16 Ad libitum, an indication which gives the performer the liberty : (1) to vary from strict tempo..(2) to include or omit the part of some voice or instrument..(3) to include a cadenza according to his own invention.
Hence as adj.
1769Gray Jrnl. 10 Oct. in Corresp. (1935) III. 1103 Many neat buildings of white stone, but a little disorderly in their position ad libitum like Kendal. 1801T. Busby Dict. Mus. s.v., We speak of an Ad Libitum pause; or, an Ad Libitum cadenza. 1821Edin. Rev. XXXV. 343 Armed with an ad libitum reserve of fool-hardiness. 1823Harmonicon June I. 83/1 Clementi has arranged for the piano-forte, with ad libitum accompaniments, many of the best symphonies of Haydn and Mozart. |