diminuendo
adverb
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L188953 on Wikidata ↗noun
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L319463 on Wikidata ↗adjective
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Pronunciation: /dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Italian diminuendobor. English diminuendo Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
- describing a passage having this mark
adv
Etymology: Etymology tree Italian diminuendobor. English diminuendo Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
- played in this style
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Italian diminuendobor. English diminuendo Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
- A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly
- A passage having this mark
- The gradual dying away of something.
“Thus, in "Flavia and Her Artists" (1905), for example, a fiction of consonance in diminuendo, the French subtext states a set of harmonies (the young American returned from France) and cacophonies (the supercilious French art critic, Roux) shedding light on the main text with its own consonances of intergenerationsl friendship, marital loyalty, artistic pleasure, and joyful lesbianism.”
“Harlow gazed, like Henry, out the wide corner window, enjoying the diminuendos of the light.”