DECRESCENDO meaning: Gradual decrease in music volume

We found 23 dictionaries that define the word decrescendo:

General (18 matching dictionaries)

decrescendo: Merriam-Webster.com
decrescendo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
decrescendo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
decrescendo: Collins English Dictionary
decrescendo: Vocabulary.com
decrescendo: Wordnik
decrescendo: Wiktionary
decrescendo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
decrescendo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
decrescendo: Infoplease Dictionary
Decrescendo, decrescendo: Dictionary.com
Decrescendo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
decrescendo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
decrescendo: Rhymezone
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decrescendo: Free Dictionary
decrescendo: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Art (3 matching dictionaries)

Essentials of Music (No longer online)
Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

decrescendo: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (decrescendo)

▸ noun:  (music) An instruction to play gradually more softly.
▸ noun:  A gradual decrease in volume or loudness of a piece of music.
▸ verb:  (music) To gradually become quieter
▸ adjective:  becoming quieter gradually.

Opposite:

crescendo

Types:

ritardando, ritenuto, stringendo, tempo rubato, more...

Phrases:

decrescendo murmur, crescendo decrescendo murmur, more...

Adjectives:

crescendo, long, gradual, rapid, short, slight, sudden, steady, smooth, artful, feebler

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