diminuendo

[ UK /dɪmˌɪnjuːˈɛndə‍ʊ/ ]
NOUN
  1. (music) a gradual decrease in loudness
ADJECTIVE
  1. (music) gradually decreasing in volume
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How To Use diminuendo In A Sentence

  • And instant by instant the flood of varicolored flame that poured into its petalings down from the sapphire ovoids waxed and waned in crescendoes and diminuendoes of relucent harmonies — ecstatic, awesome. The Metal Monster
  • His first diminuendo also impresses in that his playing doesn't lose its heroic character, simply because he's gotten softer.
  • Shaw (and every other conductor so far) has problems with shaping the final chorale, rushing both the climax and the closing diminuendo.
  • Professors argue endlessly whether diminuendo or decrescendo means getting softer; others regard decrescendo as becoming softer and slower.
  • This intoning is always a matter of crescendo and diminuendo in the intensity -- a rising and falling between plain speaking and wild chanting. God's Trombones Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
  • Like it says on the videos on this site, playing quietly or diminuendoing on the low notes is difficult, there's a risk of the notes splitting.
  • Soon we were working on cycles: playing that C# very loud and then slowing diminuendoing to a whisper and holding it angelically pure.
  • In either case the two notes will typically be slurred and played with a diminuendo.
  • The music of commerce would thus be harmonious and evenly paced, its dynamics restrained; there would be no swelling crescendo of the Boom, no cacophonous accelerando to the climax and no minor key diminuendo thereafter into the Bust.
  • The most magical moments revealed the possibilities for crescendo and diminuendo as a gee-whiz technological advance: Bezuidenhout let the close of the Variations toll ever softer, until it simply dissolved into the white noise of passing traffic. Archive 2009-06-01
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