How To Use Diminuendo In A Sentence
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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
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His first diminuendo also impresses in that his playing doesn't lose its heroic character, simply because he's gotten softer.
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Shaw (and every other conductor so far) has problems with shaping the final chorale, rushing both the climax and the closing diminuendo.
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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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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
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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.
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Soon we were working on cycles: playing that C# very loud and then slowing diminuendoing to a whisper and holding it angelically pure.
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In either case the two notes will typically be slurred and played with a diminuendo.
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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.
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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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One day Gert played even more poorly than usual at her lesson, and when Mr. Auer scolded her for not heeding the diminuendo and fortepiano, she confessed, in fits and starts, her dilemma.
Goodnight Dogs
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There is a crescendo, a sudden piano, a diminuendo and quiet ending in D.
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Her diminuendo is the non plus ultra that can be heard; her portamento wonderfully fine; her chromatic scales, especially toward the upper part of her voice, unrivalled.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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Not that there's any lack of huge, cavernous sound, and sound-effect; endless very slow, melody-free crescendos and diminuendos, uncanny thuds and knocks in the music's far distance, drones and whines and very-long-held notes that go up a semitone, stay there for a long time, and then slide back down again.
Archive 2010-02-01
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And if her low register was occasionally underpowered near the end, she made up for it with a dramatic diminuendo/crescendo combination on her final, effortlessly floated high note.
Lindstrom Shines as Last-Minute Soprano in 'Turandot'
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I walked away while playing it -- the only way you can do a diminuendo on the pipes: no volume control.
Obituaries
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Nay, it was not until I banged the washboard against my hand and the two objects made a diminuendo like the crystal bells one found in the windows of rich folk that I noticed a change.
The Alchemist’s Wife « A Fly in Amber
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As an alternative to using the mod wheel to move dynamics, you can use actual crescendo and diminuendo performances, mod wheel crossfading between the two when necessary.
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He makes them dance for his pleasure, and you hear their breath come and go, in the swell and subsiding of those marvellous crescendos and diminuendos which set the strings pulsating like a sea.
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Repeat starting pianissimo and making a crescendo to forte and then a diminuendo.
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In either case the two notes will typically be slurred and played with a diminuendo.
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Soft chords formed a suspended background for loud attacks that took an eternity to die away, and the aptly titled ‘Ten Thousand Shades of Blue’ diminuendoed into ambiguously bittersweet dissonance.
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_Crescendo e diminuendo_ -- same as _cresc. poi dim.
Music Notation and Terminology
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The children's phased tambourine crescendo and diminuendo near the start was astonishing, like a leaf opening and then curling - James Blades, doyen of postwar percussionists, couldn't have managed it better.
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Even in this, he misses the contribution of the diminuendo passages to the power of the climaxes.
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Thus also in the sports which have made us happiest and been recollected as folk and individual memories, the particular occasions in which great deeds were done by great heroes, even, in a diminuendo, done by oneself, were then gathered into the collectivity of family or national storytelling.
'A Short History of Celebrity'
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The second team, led by researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK, examined a new line of mice, called diminuendo, that showed progressive hearing loss from an early age.
EurekAlert! - Breaking News
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A note of melancholy swelled to a crescendo, then, dissipated into the breeze with a diminuendo.
