Crossword-Solution: DECRESCENDO
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decrescendo | a. & adv. | With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DECRESCENDO | anagram | CRESCENDOED |
We have 6 clues for the answer “DECRESCENDO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| gradually decreasing in volume | 1 answer |
| grow quieter | 1 answer |
| in a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone | 1 answer |
| Gradual decrease in the volume of the sound | 2 answers |
| diminuendo | 2 answers |
| slowing | 39 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DECRESCENDO (5)
After the gradual cessation of all sound and movement on the faithful river, only the ringing of ships’ bells is heard, mysterious and muffled in the white vapour from London Bridge right down to the Nore, for miles and miles in a decrescendo tinkling, to where the estuary broadens out into the North Sea, and the anchored ships lie scattered thinly in the shrouded channels between the sand-banks of the Thames’ mouth.
When she sustains her voice for a couple of bars, I am quite surprised at the beauty of her crescendo and decrescendo.
And the salutation is prolonged by a string of words spoken in a rapid decrescendo, quick; quick; a Basque prayer rattled breathlessly, begun very loudly, then dying at the finish.
Now, nature, by a thousand irrefutable examples, directs us to do the contrary, that is, she prescribes a decrease of intensity (in music, _decrescendo_) proportionate to the ascensional force of the sounds.
There is presented in each case a single curve; the dactyl moves continuously away from an initial accent in an unbroken decrescendo, the anapæst moves continuously toward a final accent in an unbroken crescendo.
Quotes with DECRESCENDO (1)
be my sonata, my cantata, my lovesing me something sweetbut not too sweet(or i may grow deaf to our harmonyas we decrescendo into silence)