accordano

Updated: July 13, 2025

Louis Viardot, who wrote a little book describing the autograph of "Don Giovanni," says that Mozart wrote in the score where the three bands play thus simultaneously the word accordano as a direction to the stage musicians to imitate the action of tuning their instruments before falling in with their music.

Henry Edward Krehbiel - A Book of Operas : Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music