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Meaning of "diminuendo" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DIMINUENDO

From Italian, from diminuire to diminish.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DIMINUENDO

diminuendo  [dɪˌmɪnjʊˈɛndəʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIMINUENDO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Diminuendo can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DIMINUENDO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

diminuendo

Dynamics (music)

In music, dynamics normally refers to the volume of a sound or note, but can also refer to every aspect of the execution of a given piece, either stylistic or functional. The term is also applied to the written or printed musical notation used to indicate dynamics. Dynamics are relative and do not refer to specific volume levels.

Definition of diminuendo in the English dictionary

The first definition of diminuendo in the dictionary is a gradual decrease in loudness or the musical direction indicating this dim, ≻. Other definition of diminuendo is a musical passage affected by a diminuendo. Diminuendo is also gradually decreasing in loudness.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DIMINUENDO


bandeau
ˈbændəʊ
Brando
ˈbrændəʊ
commando
kəˈmɑːndəʊ
condo
ˈkɒndəʊ
crescendo
krɪˈʃɛndəʊ
decrescendo
ˌdiːkrɪˈʃɛndəʊ
Hondo
ˈhɒndəʊ
innuendo
ˌɪnjʊˈɛndəʊ
inquirendo
ˌɪnkwɪˈrɛndəʊ
kendo
ˈkɛndəʊ
mondo
ˈmɒndəʊ
morendo
mɒˈrɛndəʊ
Orlando
ɔːˈlændəʊ
perdendo
peəˈdendəʊ
reddendo
rəˈdɛndəʊ
rondo
ˈrɒndəʊ
scorrendo
skəˈrɛndəʊ
secondo
sɛˈkɒndəʊ
stringendo
strɪnˈdʒɛndəʊ
window
ˈwɪndəʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIMINUENDO

dimidiation
diminish
diminishable
diminished
diminished responsibility
diminished seventh
diminished seventh chord
diminishing
diminishing returns
diminishingly
diminishment
diminution
diminutival
diminutive
diminutively
diminutiveness
dimissory
dimities
Dimitrovo
dimity

WORDS THAT END LIKE DIMINUENDO

accelerando
allargando
Belmondo
calando
forzando
glissando
go commando
kondo
largando
mancando
Ondo
Pondo
rallentando
ritardando
saltando
San Fernando
scherzando
sforzando
tondo
undo

Synonyms and antonyms of diminuendo in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «diminuendo» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIMINUENDO

Find out the translation of diminuendo to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of diminuendo from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «diminuendo» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

渐弱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

diminuendo
570 millions of speakers

English

diminuendo
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

diminuendo
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متضائل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Diminuendo
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

diminuendo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হ্রাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

diminuendo
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Diminuendo
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

diminuendo
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

diminuendo
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

디미누엔도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Diminuendo
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hạ lần
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

diminuendo
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कमी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

diminuendo
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

diminuendo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

diminuendo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Diminuendo
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

diminuendo
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

diminuendo
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

diminuendo
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

diminuendot
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

diminuendo
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of diminuendo

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIMINUENDO»

The term «diminuendo» is regularly used and occupies the 105.681 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIMINUENDO» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «diminuendo» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «diminuendo» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about diminuendo

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIMINUENDO»

Discover the use of diminuendo in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to diminuendo and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900
Early and frequent use of the sign, as both diminuendo and accent, can be found in G. Vogler's music; it is also commonly encountered in the music of Vogler's pupils Weber and Meyerbeer. The sign occurs frequently, too, in music by ...
Clive Brown, 2004
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Essentials of Brass Playing
Play a crescendo-diminuendo at a slow tempo, four beats crescendo and four beats diminuendo, on one breath. (On the tuba this might have to be as little as two beats crescendo and two beats diminuendo.) Critical listening to this ...
Staff, Alfred Publishing
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The Flutist
Begin the theme in bar forty-five p, a tempo and in a tranquil manner, making a slight crescendo on the last three sixteenth notes of this bar and a slight diminuendo on the first two notes of the following bar. Soft tongue the two last notes of this ...
Emil Medicus, 1920
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America's Musical Life: A History
ritard, sounds a bit stilted, the quality of playing on the original recording is sharp, disciplined, crackling with excitement, and utterly convincing as an artistic statement. Ellington's Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue (1937) shows him working ...
Richard Crawford, 2001
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Master school of modern piano playing & virtuosity
Т11=5 is _just what the inexperienced 131011— ist is apt to forget,- as a rule, he plays softly as soon as he catches sight ofthe word diminuendo, and loudly when he sees crescendo, whereas both the diminution and the increase of the ...
Alberto Jon?s
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Diminuendo
This poetic composition hints at a rousing, consuming fire of ecstasy that dies down, dwindles, and finally ends, leaving only banked embers.
Emily Reed, 2009
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The Principles of Expression in Pianoforte Playing
CRESCENDO AND DIMINUENDO. AS the different degrees of tone-power give to a composition the needed dynamic colors, and accents the finishing touches, so do crescendo and diminuendo represent the gradations in the coloring, and ...
Adolph Friedrich Christiani, 1885
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Jacobs' Band Monthly
At the fourth bar the solo instrument enters mp, with a graceful theme well suited to portray the desired mood. Make a crescendo in the hist two bars of the third stave to a f on the high A-flat ; diminuendo and ritard in the second bar, fourth stave, ...
9
Duke Ellington
Diminuendo. and. Crescendo. in. Blue. Afterwards Ellington would declare: / was born in 1956 in Newport, Rhode Island"" It was an acknowledgement that one performance of one composition featuring one musician had suddenly resurrected ...
David Bradbury, 2005
10
Performing Baroque Music
marking implies a diminuendo at the end of the pastorale.7 Using these and other similar marks as a guide, one may add both graded dynamics (for entire phrases) and nuanced ones (on single notes) in other Italian instrumental music of the ...
Mary Cyr, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIMINUENDO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term diminuendo is used in the context of the following news items.
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GoLocalProv | GoLocal Interview – Newport Festival Producer …
Elington's “Diminuendo and Cresendo in Blue” is remembered by many in attendance as one the greatest Jazz performances of all time. «GoLocalProv, Jul 15»
2
Opera review: A dark and stormy night at SFO's Rigoletto - The …
... the other implying extroversion — and the composer surmounts the phrase with a crescendo and then a diminuendo, all sung on the note C. «Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 15»
3
Opera review: A dark and stormy night at Santa Fe Opera's Rigoletto
... the other implying extroversion — and the composer surmounts the phrase with a crescendo and then a diminuendo, all sung on the note C. «Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 15»
4
Go with the flow
All I could hear of it was the regular diminuendo of a scream followed by a splat. Anthony, who was in his element, called back: “Don't worry, ... «Ski Club of Great Britain, Jun 15»
5
Negli Usa stop ai grassi idrogenati. L'Ue se li tiene
... LDL (quello cosiddetto 'cattivo') diminuendo quello del colesterolo HDL (quello 'buono'), peggiorando il rapporto di rischio cardiovascolare. «La Repubblica, Jun 15»
6
L'Europa e l'uso politico delle “riforme”
... allargando il bacino del lavoro sommerso e diminuendo i contributi previdenziali, minando ancora di più la stabilità del sistema pensionistico ... «EuNews, Jun 15»
7
Allerta per un lotto di latte in polvere per neonati contaminato
Essi causano alterazioni infiammatorie della mucosa, aumentando le secrezioni e diminuendo il riassorbimento d'acqua con i conseguenti ... «CN24TV, Jun 15»
8
ONJ Montréal: Orchestra on the Move
... many well worn vehicles; after intermission, the whole band will have a go at Caravan and the historical Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue. «La Scena Musicale, Jun 15»
9
How To Annoy Your Dad: Play The Harpsichord
Well, within a phrase and with a series of phrases you can certainly create the effect of diminuendo and crescendo, no question. One of the ... «Texas Public Radio, Jun 15»
10
Ornette Coleman's Uncompromising Genius
Coleman's “500 odd bars on R.P.D.D.',” Larkin wrote of a tune on the 1962 LP Ornette!, “ranging from lusty honking to meditative diminuendo ... «Vulture, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Diminuendo [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/diminuendo>. Apr 2024 ».
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