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diminuendo

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diminuendo

In musical notation, indicating a decrease in the loudness of a passage by constant degrees. Diminuendo poco a poco means that the diminuendo should progress more gradually. An alternative marking is ‘decrescendo’. The opposite marking is ‘crescendo’.
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An appalling splash within two yards of him was followed by a loud, rushing sound, DIMINUENDO, which seemed to travel back through the air to the fort and died in an explosion which stirred the very river to its deeps
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
A diminuendo of the shuffling steps; then a cursing, frightened savage at one end of the rhododendrons, and we two stealing out at the other, hand in hand, and bent quite double, into the long neglected grass.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
"The other alternative," said the Earl, "would be a diminuendo series of repetitions of the same type.
Sylvie and Bruno by Carroll, Lewis View in context
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