descrescendo
English
Etymology
Noun
descrescendo (plural descrescendos or decrescendi)
- (music) An instruction to play gradually more softly, the opposite of a crescendo.
- 2007 June 9, Craig R. Whitney, “Amid the Shirts and Socks, a Concert Can Break Out”, in New York Times:
- “It’s probably the most difficult piece I’ve ever done,” he said before trying out several movements at a Wednesday evening concert, his fingers slinking from keyboard to keyboard and darting restlessly over the 729 stop-control tablets as phrase seamlessly followed phrase and crescendo climaxed and faded into descrescendo.
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