calando

ADJECTIVE
  1. (music) gradually decreasing in tempo and volume
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How To Use calando In A Sentence

  • My own favorite is calando, which I picked up from Webern. Fragende Ode
  • Now amidst forte and breathless speed the music whirls furiously in a wash of G-minor arpeggios until calando and smorzando signal the performer to slow, to ebb and finally to ritenuto to the sublime second theme of the Ballade.
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