diminuendo
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Later, after a short diminuendo featuring Joachim’s gorgeous live singing and those choppy, sampled vocals, the full-band dynamic returns, now with fiery lines from Joachim’s flute.
From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024
Just as the emotional transformation reaches its climax, the music startles with a shimmering, introspective diminuendo that drifts down from the heavens, a passage Ms. Netrebko navigates with trembling and bewitched delicacy.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2018
In Mitchell’s case, the diminuendo was especially long, and his continued expectations for himself much higher.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2015
As each wave rolls in—booming, roaring, growling, hissing—I listen to its voice: the unique contours of its rising and falling, its singular crescendo and diminuendo.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2015
Any other country would have sulkily responded, "Blake—ake—ake—ake," in diminuendo to the end of the chapter.
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James
Vocabulary lists containing diminuendo
Music - Middle School
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Music - High School
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 1
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