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Meanings of diminuendo in anglès

Gradually decreasing in volume.

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Examples for "decrescendo"
Examples for "decrescendo"
1
He made a decrescendo tinkling, and his lofty features lapsed into their normal mournfulness.
Romance
2
The decrescendo movement of another business cycle had begun.
A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the...
3
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
4
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
5
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 &...
Usage of diminuendo in anglès
1
Thorndyke asked, as the cabman's footsteps faded away in a creaky diminuendo.
The Mystery of 31 New Inn
2
So, too, loudness, softness, crescendo, diminuendo, volume, piercingness, have their emotional accompaniments.
The Psychology of Beauty
3
The plot never flags and has no diminuendo after the death of Ajax.
Authors of Greece
4
The turbine hum starts running back down the scale in a cosmic diminuendo.
Soon I will be invincible
5
And the string, laughing and talking, gradually disappeared diminuendo in the distance towards Bursley.
Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.)
6
The saw was ripping through a series of knots in alternate crescendo and diminuendo.
Oh, You Tex!
7
And I can tell you it is not easy to make a beautiful diminuendo.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
8
The song is then continuous, but always with an alternation of crescendo and diminuendo.
Social Life in the Insect World
9
The foghorn in his throat continued to rumble intermittently, now in crescendo, now in diminuendo.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
10
The last note died away in an impressive diminuendo, and the young man turned toward her.
Marcia Schuyler
11
It sounded that way too- adeafeningroar without the crescendo & diminuendo we associate with that word.
The new yorker
12
His voice crooned away in soothing diminuendo.
A Daughter of the Snows
13
A diminuendo of screams mingled down there.
Beyond the Vanishing Point
14
At my age we say, sempre diminuendo.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
15
Out upon the dock an insistent siren blared a crescendo and diminuendo blast of sound, and two minutes remained.
Spacehounds of IPC
16
There was never a diminuendo.
Somewhere in Red Gap
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Diminuendo through the time