Crescendo

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 passage to be performed with constantly increasing
         volume of tone.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crescendo
       adj : gradually increasing in volume
       n : (music) a gradual increase in loudness
       v : grow louder; "The music crescendoes here" [ant: {decrescendo}]
       [also: {crescendi} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  209 Moby Thesaurus words for "crescendo":
     a cappella, abbandono, access, accession, accrescendo, accretion,
     accrual, accrue, accruement, accumulate, accumulation, acme,
     adagietto, adagio, add to, addition, adjunct, advance, affettuoso,
     aggrandize, aggrandizement, agilmente, agitato, allegretto,
     allegro, amabile, amoroso, ampliation, amplification, amplify,
     andante, andantino, apex, apogee, appassionatamente, appassionato,
     appreciate, appreciation, ascent, augment, augmentation,
     awake the dead, balloon, ballooning, blast, blast the ear, bloat,
     bloating, blow up, boom, boost, breed, brillante, broaden,
     broadening, build, build up, buildup, bulk, bulk out, capriccioso,
     capstone, climax, con affetto, con agilita, con agitazione,
     con amore, crash, crest, culmen, culmination, deafen, decrescendo,
     deployment, develop, development, dilate, diminuendo, din,
     dispersion, distend, dolce, edema, elevation, enlarge, enlargement,
     expand, expansion, extend, extension, fanning out, fill out,
     fill the air, flare, flood, forte, fortissimo, fullness, gain,
     gain strength, get ahead, go up, greaten, greatening, grow, growth,
     gush, hike, hike up, hiking, huff, increase, increment, inflate,
     inflation, intensify, intensity, jump, lamentabile, larghetto,
     larghissimo, largo, leap, legato, leggiero, loudishness, loudness,
     magnification, magnify, marcando, meridian, morendo, mount,
     mounting, multiplication, multiply, parlando, peak, peal,
     pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, prestissimo, presto, productiveness,
     proliferate, proliferation, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, raise,
     raising, rallentando, rarefy, rattle the windows, rend the air,
     rend the ears, resound, ring, rise, ritardando, ritenuto,
     rock the sky, run up, scherzando, scherzo, scherzoso, shoot up,
     snowball, snowballing, sonority, sonorousness, sordo, sotto voce,
     spiccato, splay, split the eardrums, split the ears, spread,
     spreading, staccato, startle the echoes, strengthen, stretch,
     stretto, stun, sufflate, surge, surge of sound, swell, swelling,
     thunder, tremolando, tremoloso, trillando, tumefy, tumescence, up,
     upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, volume, wax, waxing,
     widen, widening