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How to pronounce diminuendo in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms decrescendo
Type Words
Synonyms decrescendo
Type of softness

Examples of diminuendo

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Here he reminds us of the size and scope of his genius, but dis plays it diminuendo.
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For Broadway theater, the new millennium has started on a note of musical diminuendo.
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And the sound echoed off the valley sides before it died away in a mournful diminuendo.
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It also executes a highly effective narrative diminuendo in an extraordinary fictional nightmare.
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He was a master of the graceful exit, the teasing diminuendo.
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There is no danger of a diminuendo for this particular guru.
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Yet one sound was remarkable in its very diminuendo.
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A man in white gloves gesticulates around the words as they pass, suggesting a diminuendo here, a rousing finish there.
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Just as the adagio tails off in an eerie diminuendo, Traces ends with the anguish of the woman left unresolved.
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More examples
  • Decrescendo: (music) a gradual decrease in loudness
  • In music, dynamics normally refers to the volume of a sound or note, but can also refer to every aspect of the execution of a given piece, either stylistic (staccato, legato etc.) or functional (velocity). ...
  • Diminuendo was released in 1987 in Scotland on Nightshift Records, an independent music record label. It was Lowlife's second album. The LP was recorded at Palladium Studios in Edinburgh, Scotland, and released in May. ...
  • A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly; A passage having this mark; describing a passage having this mark; played in this style
  • Diminuendo (dim.) means to gradually become softer. The term decrescendo (decresc. or decr.) also means to become softer, and is indicated by the sign:
  • (softening) together with a ritardando (slowing)
  • A directive to smoothly decrease the volume.
  • (pronounced "dee-MIN-you-EN-doe") - the term used when the dynamic level grows softer in the course of a piece.
  • Getting softer and softer through a marked passage