How To Use Decrescendo In A Sentence
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The scene, she explains is a decrescendo, the denouement of everything that has happened before it; the build up and heyday of Rome; these women becoming trophy brides, the beautiful houses, clothes and hairdos - and it all falls apart.
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She is always in the groove of the phrase, which makes her crescendos and decrescendos seamless and undistorted.
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Instead of merely playing the whole piece as softly as possible, we play opposite dynamics: forte where it should be piano, a decrescendo where there should be a crescendo.
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Perhaps most easily observed, is Obama's way of ending statements with a decrescendo – settling his statement into a soft landing in the deeper part of his baritone range.
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The first section of "Eri tu" is rendered in a splendidly firm, strong-lined legato, the words crystal-clear; it comes to an end with a decrescendo and portamento down from the top F on "guisa," a most expressive turn and acciaccatura on "primo," and a fermata at the end of the phrase.
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It was followed by a mournful decrescendo that filled the clearing with sadness.
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The musical phraseology was convincing, and the crescendos and decrescendos were accurately measured and performed.
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Zinman did not quite observe Elgar's arduous modulations, some within the span of a mere two-to-three bars, from crescendo and pianissimo to decrescendo and fortissimo.
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He played quite well, especially the wind instruments, but simply couldn't make up for all the lost musicians, and the judges finally stopped him when he started humming the decrescendos.
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She turned it slightly, and the car started with a load roar, and then there was a decrescendo into an inviting purr… a weird combination of the traditional piston and the new-age rotary technology.
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In Mozart's dark-hued Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, Mr. Tao showed appealing freshness in his use of telling, expressive details that distinguish one interpretation from the next -- a slight decrescendo here, a change of tonal color there, a heartfelt response to the piece.
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My husband says our name for each other over and over, in a slow decrescendo.
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Furthermore, the crescendos and decrescendos need to be better managed.
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The music decrescendoes here
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Professors argue endlessly whether diminuendo or decrescendo means getting softer; others regard decrescendo as becoming softer and slower.
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Wally Cardona worked reductively in a new piece titled Him, There, Them, removing production elements in each of three sections - a scenic decrescendo.
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In the Beethoven Sonata, hornist Martin Hackleman struggled to echo the beautifully shaped ornaments and decrescendos that Orkis crafted.
Chamber Players hit and miss
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The acoustic instruments beautify the noise that surrounds them, and the music is almost triumphant by the time it hits its closing decrescendo.
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The musical phraseology was convincing, and the crescendos and decrescendos were accurately measured and performed.
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The crescendo and decrescendos of Zacks' third track, to me, stand for the successes and failures of existence.
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Grandpa Favre’ s play as the season wears is known to decrescendo, and this has already been one of the southern slinger’ s worst outings in his illustrious career.
The interim coach vs. the replacements
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For example, Fabio Grasso has a tendency to end phrases with a dying fall; a slight ritard and decrescendo.
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Teaching students to discover this climax point of the phrase and focus their practice on executing a beautifully gradual crescendo / decrescendo becomes an addition to their strategies and goals.
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His poor control of a decrescendo on a long, high note in the first song rings alarm bells, and his richness of timbre deserts him in Serenade florentine.
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‘Dancing Raindrops’ encourages musical artistry with phrases notated with crescendo and decrescendo throughout.
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The first section of "Eri tu" is rendered in a splendidly firm, strong-lined legato, the words crystal-clear; it comes to an end with a decrescendo and portamento down from the top F on "guisa," a most expressive turn and acciaccatura on "primo," and a fermata at the end of the phrase.
Conrad L. Osborne: Best Opera Critic Ever
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In The Apple in the Dark, written in Chevy Chase, Maryland, just before she left her marriage, a black humor, conveyed through decrescendo and juxtaposition, is the offsetting fruit:
The Brazilian Sphinx
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I heard him ask, but his voice was just a faint decrescendo.
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The cry of birds grew faint, a rapid decrescendo to something less than a whisper.
Record of a Living Being
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Freedom feeds fillip and flames of frenzy in a few freak cases, but if it reaches a more feverish frequency, somebody ought to remind those folks to tone down their rhetorical crescendo to a decrescendo level.
Pelosi gets emotional about political climate
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The climax occurred a little more than an hour in when John played a 10 minute version of ‘Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) ‘that felt like it never was going to end with decrescendos and crescendos.’
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I was dissatisfied with my execution of the crescendos and decrescendos in the ‘A Section’ of the work's scherzo movement.
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His voice fell into a decrescendo at the climax of his argument.
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Intonation, a command of decrescendo and true unison, and just plain running out of breath become the technical challenges singers must meet.
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When the coyotes howl it seems they are beyond the edge of the world, surely falling… or leaping over the plate's rim, taking their sad decrescendos with them.
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‘Dancing Raindrops’ encourages musical artistry with phrases notated with crescendo and decrescendo throughout.