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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crescendo \Cres*cen"do\ (kr?s-s?n"d?; It kr?-sh?n"d?), a. & adv [It., from crescere to increase. See {Crescent}.] (Mus.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crescendo \Cres*cen"do\, n. (Mus.) a A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed. b A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: crescendo adj : gradually increasing in volume n : (music) a gradual increase in loudness v : grow louder, of sound; "The music crescendoes here" [ant: {decrescendo}]
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