Crossword clues for crescendo
crescendo
- Philosophy capturing detailed scene's climax
- Belief about timeless perfume being a high point
- Increase in loudness
- "Louder, please"
- Soprano's increase
- Musical buildup
- Sound surge
- Orchestral climax
- Musical passage that gets gradually louder
- Music marking
- From Italian for "growing"
- Climactic point
- (Of music) gradually increasing in loudness
- (music) a gradual increase in loudness
- Gradual increase in volume
- Peak
- Gradual rise in volume
- Gradual increase in loudness
- Musical surge
- Climax from short clip describing key motive
- Endless urban street party growing in volume
- Electric guitar ultimately has key objective of getting louder
- Soccer playing about to finish leading to increasing noise
- Second race, with number two going badly as the roar goes up?
- Scene cut is in Latin I believe - it’s climactic
- Result during soccer replay causing increase in noise
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
increasing \increasing\ adj.
becoming greater or larger; as, increasing prices. [Narrower terms: accretionary ; {augmenting, augmentative, building ; {expanding ; {flared, flaring ; {growing ; {incorporative ; {lengthening ; {maximizing ; {multiplicative ; {profit-maximizing ; {raising ; {accretive ; {rising ] {decreasing
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same as growing, 1. [prenominal]
Syn: growing(prenominal), incremental.
(Music) increasing in some musical quality. Opposite of decreasing. [Narrower terms: {accelerando ; {crescendo ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1776 as a musical term, from Italian crescendo "increasing," from Latin crescendo, ablative of gerund of crescere "to increase" (see crescent). Figurative use is from 1785. As a verb, from 1900.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ). 2 (label en figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax. 3 (label en figuratively nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase. vb. To increase in intensity, to reach or head for a crescendo.
WordNet
adj. gradually increasing in volume
n. (music) a gradual increase in loudness
v. grow louder; "The music crescendoes here" [ant: decrescendo]
[also: crescendi (pl)]
Wikipedia
Crescendo is a passage of music during which the volume gradually increases.
Crescendo may also refer to:
is an adult Japanese visual novel written by Tomohiro Minakami and developed by Digital Object. It was released in Japan for the PC on September 28, 2001. A 'Full Voice Version' of the game was released in Japan on July 25, 2003, including full voice acting (apart from the protagonist) and extended scenarios for each character. The voice assets from this version of the game, but not the extended scenarios, were utilized by G-Collections in their English translation of the game, which was released on October 20, 2003. A reprint version was released in Japan on March 4, 2005 and a Russian version was produced by Macho Studio in 2007.
The game follows a student named Ryo Sasaki through the five days leading up to his high school graduation. The story is presented as text, laid over graphics of the player's current location and other characters who are present. The player progresses through the story and is occasionally presented with decisions that determine the path the game will take.
Crescendo is told from a third person perspective. This allows the game to shift to other characters' viewpoints from time to time. Most of the game is played from Ryo's point of view, though. Crescendo is a unique visual novel in that none of the background music used within the game were composed for the purpose of the game; instead, it uses various famous songs, pieces, and folk songs (and rearrangements thereof) as its background music, tying the motif of music more closely into the game.
This game also includes an in-universe nod to characters from an earlier Digital Object game Kana: Little Sister, where the player can watch a movie based on the lives of the characters from that game.
Crescendo is the third album by the Brazilian rock band Ultraje a Rigor, released in 1990.
Crescendo is a 1970 British psychological thriller film directed by Alan Gibson and starring Stefanie Powers, James Olson and Margaretta Scott. It was made by Hammer Film Productions.
(Not to be confused with the 2014 documentary film Crescendo! The Power of Music: about El Sistema-inspired music-education programs in the United States.)
Crescendo is a young adult paranormal romance novel by Becca Fitzpatrick and the second book in the Hush, Hush series. The book was first published on October 19, 2010 through Simon & Schuster and spent ten weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list. The book was also voted as one of the Young Adult Library Services Association's Teens’ Top Ten for 2011.
Fitzpatrick told Metro France that she had to re-write the book from scratch after her editor hated the first version.
Crescendo (Chinese: 起飞) is a Singaporean musical drama produced by production company Wawa Pictures and telecast on MediaCorp Channel 8. The drama began production in May 2015 and will make its debut on 23 October 2015. The series is the 5th Wawa production to be aired on Channel 8, following the 2014 top-rated drama series Three Wishes, and will have 30 episodes.
The series is set against the backdrop of the Xinyao Movement, synonymous with the pursuit of dreams of a young generation of Singaporeans in the local music industry, and a part of Singapore culture many still hold dear.
Usage examples of "crescendo".
His guns roared in a pealing crescendo of rapid fire, a fire of such scathing accuracy that it drove his enemies to cover, and in the moment when they were ducking to cover, Bill Brakey sprinted for the car.
There I am outside the hotel room waiting for the corespondent to reach a crescendo of amorous noises.
Camilla, who looked on with a rising sensation of nausea, it seemed as if the Five Sons now danced on a crescendo that thudded like a quickening pulse towards its climax.
The bellows and cries of the pursuing Firbolgs built to a crescendo and then faded again, so they knew that the creatures were chasing the unicorn down the opposite corridor.
The noise grew to a crescendo of excitement as the blood-thirsty thunder of the alaunts pealed through the lesser notes.
Susan was lovely in her light curls and blue ribbons, and the becoming dress which could not help betraying the modestly emphasized crescendos and gently graded diminuendos of her figure.
Eisel musicologists have made exhaustive analyses in these directions, and are absolutely competent at producing the most effective timbres, crescendos and diminuendos upon their synthesizers.
The music swelled in a crescendo, cube-drums, ice-horns, percussion geodes, and more, all in perfect harmony.
A sudden explosive cracking sound rolled through the cavern and vibrated into a thunderous crescendo as the tremors shook the hard rock walls.
They are like the colossal strides of approaching Fate, and this awfulness is twice raised to a higher power, first by a searching, syncopated phrase in the violins which hovers loweringly over them, and next by a succession of afrighted minor scales ascending crescendo and descending piano, the change in dynamics beginning abruptly as the crest of each terrifying wave is reached.
The Balladine drums, which had continued to sing since Handil's first stroke on his vibrar, rose in a crescendo of distant thunder, then stopped.
He had two baritones, three tenors, a bass, and a countertenor who was much mocked on account of having to sing all the women's parts, and the idea was that each man should expel either a turd or a fart during the crescendos, when they could not be heard above the singing.
With a quick jerk, cataleptically, his nose pointed to the zenith, his mouth opened, and a flood of sound poured forth, running swiftly upward in crescendo and slowly falling as it died away.
The tree expanded suddenly, shuddered and moaned, and the thunder of the rising crescendo echoed down the valley as thrice a thousand chimers piled variation and chorus and life into it Beethoven, it was.
The cluttering was rising to a crescendo and Jim felt the ability to think slipping from him.