| 释义 |
Definition of diminuendo in English: diminuendonounPlural diminuendos, Plural diminuendi dɪˌmɪnjʊˈɛndəʊdəˌmɪn(j)əˈwɛndoʊ Music 1A decrease in loudness in a piece of music. the sudden diminuendos are brilliantly effective Example sentencesExamples - The children's phased tambourine crescendo and diminuendo near the start was astonishing, like a leaf opening and then curling - James Blades, doyen of postwar percussionists, couldn't have managed it better.
- In either case the two notes will typically be slurred and played with a diminuendo.
- A note of melancholy swelled to a crescendo, then, dissipated into the breeze with a diminuendo.
- He makes them dance for his pleasure, and you hear their breath come and go, in the swell and subsiding of those marvellous crescendos and diminuendos which set the strings pulsating like a sea.
- His first diminuendo also impresses in that his playing doesn't lose its heroic character, simply because he's gotten softer.
- 1.1 A passage to be performed with a decrease in loudness.
Example sentencesExamples - Conclusion comes in a diminuendo where the piano accompanied by the harp slowly melts into silence in a long arpeggio.
- He (and every other conductor so far) has problems with shaping the final chorale, rushing both the climax and the closing diminuendo.
adjective & adverbdɪˌmɪnjʊˈɛndəʊdəˌmɪn(j)əˈwɛndoʊ Music (especially as a direction) with a decrease in loudness. as adjective the diminuendo chorus before the final tumult Example sentencesExamples - As an alternative to using the mod wheel to move dynamics, you can use actual crescendo and diminuendo performances, mod wheel crossfading between the two when necessary.
- Even in this, he misses the contribution of the diminuendo passages to the power of the climaxes.
verbdiminuendos, diminuendoing, diminuendoeddɪˌmɪnjʊˈɛndəʊdəˌmɪn(j)əˈwɛndoʊ [no object]Music Decrease in loudness or intensity. the singers left and the buzz diminuendoed Example sentencesExamples - Like it says on the videos on this site, playing quietly or diminuendoing on the low notes is difficult, there's a risk of the notes splitting.
- Soon we were working on cycles: playing that C# very loud and then slowing diminuendoing to a whisper and holding it angelically pure.
- Soft chords formed a suspended background for loud attacks that took an eternity to die away, and the aptly titled ‘Ten Thousand Shades of Blue’ diminuendoed into ambiguously bittersweet dissonance.
Origin Italian, literally 'diminishing', from diminuire, from Latin deminuere 'lessen' (see diminish). Rhymes crescendo, innuendo, kendo Definition of diminuendo in US English: diminuendonoundəˌmin(y)əˈwendōdəˌmɪn(j)əˈwɛndoʊ Music 1A decrease in loudness. the sudden diminuendos are brilliantly effective Example sentencesExamples - His first diminuendo also impresses in that his playing doesn't lose its heroic character, simply because he's gotten softer.
- In either case the two notes will typically be slurred and played with a diminuendo.
- The children's phased tambourine crescendo and diminuendo near the start was astonishing, like a leaf opening and then curling - James Blades, doyen of postwar percussionists, couldn't have managed it better.
- A note of melancholy swelled to a crescendo, then, dissipated into the breeze with a diminuendo.
- He makes them dance for his pleasure, and you hear their breath come and go, in the swell and subsiding of those marvellous crescendos and diminuendos which set the strings pulsating like a sea.
- 1.1 A musical passage to be performed with a decrease in loudness.
Example sentencesExamples - Conclusion comes in a diminuendo where the piano accompanied by the harp slowly melts into silence in a long arpeggio.
- He (and every other conductor so far) has problems with shaping the final chorale, rushing both the climax and the closing diminuendo.
adjective & adverbdəˌmin(y)əˈwendōdəˌmɪn(j)əˈwɛndoʊ Music (especially as a direction) with a decrease in loudness. as adjective the diminuendo chorus before the final tumult Example sentencesExamples - As an alternative to using the mod wheel to move dynamics, you can use actual crescendo and diminuendo performances, mod wheel crossfading between the two when necessary.
- Even in this, he misses the contribution of the diminuendo passages to the power of the climaxes.
verbdəˌmin(y)əˈwendōdəˌmɪn(j)əˈwɛndoʊ [no object]Music Decrease in loudness or intensity. the singers left and the buzz diminuendoed Example sentencesExamples - Soft chords formed a suspended background for loud attacks that took an eternity to die away, and the aptly titled ‘Ten Thousand Shades of Blue’ diminuendoed into ambiguously bittersweet dissonance.
- Like it says on the videos on this site, playing quietly or diminuendoing on the low notes is difficult, there's a risk of the notes splitting.
- Soon we were working on cycles: playing that C# very loud and then slowing diminuendoing to a whisper and holding it angelically pure.
Origin Italian, literally ‘diminishing’, from diminuire, from Latin deminuere ‘lessen’ (see diminish). |