perdendosi

English

Noun

perdendosi

  1. (music) A gradual fading away.
    • 1958, Edgar Mittelhölzer, The Old Blood, page 495:
      Then towards the end you hear them both interlaced, and both are being resolved in a perdendosi.
    • 1959, University of California Publications in East Asiatic Philology:
      For the AnC period, Karlgren (Études, pp. 38-39) describes the Four tones p'ing ('even perdendosi'), shang ('rising perdendosi'), ch'u ('probably falling perdendosi'), ju (ex abrupto), but then ...
    • 1999, Graham Steed, The Organ Works of Marcel Dupré, →ISBN, page 79:
      The final nine bars must be played in strict time: the perdendosi effect relies on the lessening of rhythmic activity rather than a slackening of tempo.

Italian

Verb

perdendosi

  1. gerund of perdersi

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