diminuendo

Example Sentences

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“Knowing all these words — for example, ‘crescendo,’ ‘diminuendo,’ ‘ritardando,’ which means to slow down, ‘fortissimo,’ which means play extremely loud” allowed him to “bring emotion to the piece, make it come alive,” he said.

From New York Times

You’re saying that he didn’t write the diminuendo just because it would have been obvious to the performer.

From New York Times

One speech had a beginning, a middle and an end; the other felt like sustained madness, a fortissimo blast of pure dissonance with no room for a crescendo or diminuendo or nuance of any sort.

From Washington Post

But after critics began to complain, Mr. Solti dialed it back, in what Mr. Friedman called “the great diminuendo.”

From New York Times

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