crescendo

[Cres*cen·do]

In a crescendo, the music is getting louder. There's often a crescendo in a large group of talking people, too.

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With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.

Noun
(music) a gradual increase in loudness

Verb
grow louder; "The music crescendoes here"

Adjective S.
gradually increasing in volume


a. & adv.
With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.

n.
A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.

n.
A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.


Crescendo

Cres*cen"do (kr?s-s?n"d?; It. kr?-sh?n"d?), a. & adv. [It., from crescere to increase. See Crescent.] (Mus.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.

Crescendo

Cres*cen"do, n. (Mus.) (a) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed. (b) A pssage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.

With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.

A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.

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