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Decrescendo

adjective
1.
Gradually decreasing in volume.  Synonym: diminuendo.





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... characterizes the lyric actors of our day is a real profanation of scenic musical art. Not only are singers allowed to walk and gesticulate on the stage without paying any attention to the time, but also no shade of expression, dynamic or motor, of the orchestra—crescendo, decrescendo, accelerando, rallentando—finds in their gestures adequate realization. By this I mean the kind of wholly instinctive transformation of sound movements into bodily movements ...
— The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze • Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
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Words linked to "Decrescendo" :   decreasing, diminish, music, fall, diminuendo, lessen, crescendo, decrease, softness


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