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Meanings of decrescendo in English

Catalan
abaixar

Grow quieter.

abaixar

Gradually decreasing in volume.

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Examples for "crescendo"
1
It will come to a crescendo today when the team plays Portugal.
The Irish Times
2
Things crescendo to the point where the trio must interview personal bodyguards.
Reuters
3
As I mentioned earlier, his Imax sequences are wonders of crescendo action.
Wired
4
He leads up to his crisis with a gradual crescendo of emotion.
The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance
5
The crescendo pedal, as it is called, is little used in England.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building / Being an Account of Mo...
Usage of decrescendo in English
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 &...
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Decrescendo.....sempre p pp ppp)
Bluebeard; a musical fantasy
Translations for decrescendo
Catalan
abaixar
Decrescendo through the time