Diminuendo vs. Crescendo

Diminuendo vs. Crescendo — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Diminuendo and Crescendo

Diminuendonoun

(music) A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly

Crescendonoun

(music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.

Diminuendonoun

(music) A passage having this mark

Crescendonoun

(figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.

Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.

Diminuendonoun

(metaphoric) The gradual dying away of something.

Crescendonoun

The climax of a gradual increase.

Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.
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Diminuendoadverb

(music) played in this style

Crescendoverb

To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo.

The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.

Diminuendoadjective

(music) describing a passage having this mark

Crescendoadverb

(music) Gradually increasing in force or loudness.

Diminuendonoun

(music) a gradual decrease in loudness

Crescendonoun

(music) a gradual increase in loudness

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Diminuendoadjective

gradually decreasing in volume

Crescendoverb

grow louder;

The music crescendoes here

Crescendoadjective

gradually increasing in volume