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diminuendo |
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diminuendo Music 1. a. a gradual decrease in loudness or the musical direction indicating this b. a musical passage affected by a diminuendo 2. gradually decreasing in loudness 3. with a diminuendo How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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An appalling splash within two yards of him was followed by a loud, rushing sound, DIMINUENDO, which seemed to travel back through the air to the fort and died in an explosion which stirred the very river to its deeps A diminuendo of the shuffling steps; then a cursing, frightened savage at one end of the rhododendrons, and we two stealing out at the other, hand in hand, and bent quite double, into the long neglected grass. "The other alternative," said the Earl, "would be a diminuendo series of repetitions of the same type. |
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