Decrescendo

3 definitions found

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

  Decrescendo \De`cres*cen"do\, a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.)
     With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to
     performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec.,
     or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  decrescendo
       adj : gradually decreasing in volume [syn: {diminuendo}]
       n : (music) a gradual decrease in loudness [syn: {diminuendo}]
       v : grow quieter; "The music decrescendoes here" [ant: {crescendo}]

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

  127 Moby Thesaurus words for "decrescendo":
     a cappella, abbandono, accrescendo, adagietto, adagio, affettuoso,
     agilmente, agitato, allegretto, allegro, amabile, amoroso, andante,
     andantino, appassionatamente, appassionato, barely audible,
     brillante, capriccioso, catabasis, collapse, con affetto,
     con agilita, con agitazione, con amore, contractive, crash,
     crescendo, deceleration, declension, decline, decline and fall,
     declining, decreasing, decreasingly, decrescent, deliquescent, dim,
     diminishing, diminishingly, diminuendo, dimness, distant, dive,
     dolce, downtrend, downturn, drop, dwindling, ebb, ever less, faint,
     faint-voiced, faintness, fall, feeble, feebleness, flatness, forte,
     fortissimo, gentle, gentleness, half-heard, indistinct,
     indistinctness, lamentabile, languishing, lapse, larghetto,
     larghissimo, largo, legato, leggiero, less, less and less,
     lessening, low, lowness, marcando, morendo, murmured, on the wane,
     parlando, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, plunge, prestissimo,
     presto, rallentando, reductive, remission, retreat, ritardando,
     ritenuto, scarcely heard, scherzando, scherzo, scherzoso, slowdown,
     slump, soft, soft-sounding, soft-voiced, softness, sordo,
     sotto voce, spiccato, staccato, stretto, subaudibility, subaudible,
     subdued, subduedness, subsidence, subsiding, tremolando, tremoloso,
     trillando, unclear, unclearness, wane, waning, weak, weak-voiced,
     weakness, whispered