Meaning of DECRESCENDO
| Pronunciation: | | deekri'shendow
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- [n] (music) a gradual decrease in loudness
- [adj] gradually decreasing in volume
- [v] grow quieter, of sound; "The music decrescendoes here"
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| | Synonyms: | | decreasing, diminuendo, diminuendo |
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| | Antonyms: | | crescendo | | |
| | See Also: | | decrease, diminish, fall, lessen, softness | |
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| | Definition: | | \De`cres*cen"do\, a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.)
With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to
performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec.,
or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
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| | Related Terms: | | a cappella, abbandono, accrescendo, adagietto, adagio, affettuoso, agilmente, agitato, allegretto, allegro, amabile, amoroso, andante, andantino, appassionatamente, appassionato, barely audible, brillante, capriccioso, catabasis, collapse, con affetto, con agilita, con agitazione, con amore, contractive, crash, crescendo, deceleration, declension, decline, decline and fall, declining, decreasing, decreasingly, decrescent, deliquescent, dim, diminishing, diminishingly, diminuendo, dimness, distant, dive, dolce, downtrend, downturn, drop, dwindling, ebb, ever less, faint, faintness, faint-voiced, fall, feeble, feebleness, flatness, forte, fortissimo, gentle, gentleness, half-heard, indistinct, indistinctness, lamentabile, languishing, lapse, larghetto, larghissimo, largo, legato, leggiero, less, less and less, lessening, low, lowness, marcando, morendo, murmured, on the wane, parlando, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, plunge, prestissimo, presto, rallentando, reductive, remission, retreat, ritardando, ritenuto, scarcely heard, scherzando, scherzo, scherzoso, slowdown, slump, soft, softness, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, sordo, sotto voce, spiccato, staccato, stretto, subaudibility, subaudible, subdued, subduedness, subsidence, subsiding, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando, unclear, unclearness, wane, waning, weak, weakness, weak-voiced, whispered |
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