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Meanings of decrescendo in anglès

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Grow quieter.

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Gradually decreasing in volume.

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Examples for "diminuendo"
Examples for "diminuendo"
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Thorndyke asked, as the cabman's footsteps faded away in a creaky diminuendo.
The Mystery of 31 New Inn
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So, too, loudness, softness, crescendo, diminuendo, volume, piercingness, have their emotional accompaniments.
The Psychology of Beauty
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The plot never flags and has no diminuendo after the death of Ajax.
Authors of Greece
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The turbine hum starts running back down the scale in a cosmic diminuendo.
Soon I will be invincible
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And the string, laughing and talking, gradually disappeared diminuendo in the distance towards Bursley.
Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)
Usage of decrescendo in anglès
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He made a decrescendo tinkling, and his lofty features lapsed into their normal mournfulness.
Romance
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The decrescendo movement of another business cycle had begun.
A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the...
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The crescendo and decrescendo are the means employed in music for the portrayal of this manifestation of emotional life.
For Every Music Lover / A Series of Practical Essays on Music
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When she sustains her voice for a couple of bars, I am quite surprised at the beauty of her crescendo and decrescendo.
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
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He had a slow, rather ponderous speech, with deep gurgling gutturals and a decrescendo laugh, slipping farther and farther down into his larynx.
Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
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Decrescendo.....sempre p pp ppp)
Bluebeard; a musical fantasy
Translations for decrescendo
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Decrescendo through the time