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Crescendo vs Crescendi - What's the difference?

crescendo | crescendi |

As nouns the difference between crescendo and crescendi

is that crescendo is an instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ) while crescendi is plural of lang=en.

As a verb crescendo

is to increase in intensity, to reach or head for a crescendo.

crescendo

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

  • (label) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ).
  • (label) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
    • Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.
  • The climax of a gradual increase.
    • Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 20 , author=Michael da Silva , title=Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.}}

    Usage notes

    * The musical sense indicates that the figurative sense is an increase rather than the climax of the increase. The use of this word to mean the climax of an increase is nonstandard but commonplace.

    Antonyms

    * (music) decrescendo, diminuendo * (the climax of a gradual increase) climax, conclusion

    Verb

    (es)
  • To increase in intensity, to reach or head for a crescendo.
    • The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.
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    crescendi

    English

    Noun

    (head) (p)
  • * 1964 : Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov et alii'', ''Principles of orchestration: with musical examples drawn from his own works , page 112] ([http://store.doverpublications.com/0486212661.html DoverPublications.com; ISBN 0486212661)
    • Short crescendi''''' and ''diminuendi'' are generally produced by natural dynamic means; when prolonged, they are obtained by this method combined with other orchestral devices. […] Prolonged orchestral '''''crescendi are obtained by the gradual addition of other instruments in the following order: strings, wood-wind, brass.
  • * 1989 : Hermann Scherchen, Michel D. Calvocoressi [tr.], and Norman Del Mar [prefacer], Handbook of conducting , page 113] ([http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/?cp=25211&ci=9780198161820 Oxford University Press; ISBN 0198161824, 9780198161820)
    • Wrong crescendi , which should be avoided, tend to appear at the end of passages ascending to the apex of melodies[.]
  • * 2003 : Christopher Anderson, Max Reger and Karl Straube: perspectives on an organ performing tradition , page 94] ([http://www.ashgate.com/ Ashgate Publishing; ISBN 0754630757, 9780754630753)
    • Furthermore, organ builders were at liberty to construct their register crescendi' so that stops entered either one at a time or in groups of two or more. […] Of course, a sensitive organist would not rely wholly or even predominantly upon a register crescendo to effect stop changes, particularly when those changes had more to do with simple manipulation of tone color than with progressive ' crescendi .
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