CRESCENDO
(noun) (music) a gradual increase in loudness
The music rose to a deafening crescendo. -added by naila_inlas
(verb) grow louder
"The music crescendoes here"
(adj.) gradually increasing in volume
The crescendo crowd could not be accommodated inside the small hall. -added by naila_inlas
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Mnemonics for crescendo
(Tag: ) divide it like cresc(sound like krish)+end..at the end of krish movie..when hrithik kills the villian..the intensity or the volume of music increses .which conveys the feeling.
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(Tag: ) crescent is moon...moon increases in size phase by phase..therefore crescendo is to increase in volume
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(Tag: ) CRESCENDO - CR + ESCENDO (ASCEND) - ascend means a gradual rising...here it refers to an increase in volume.
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(Tag: ) do u know the organisation red crescent? the shape of curved moon in red crescent's symbol? so this moon's shape will be full in days step by step. And crescendo means gradual increase in the intensity
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(Tag: A take on above - ) The crescent moon fills in more and more reaching a crescendo of being full.
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(Tag: ) another mnemonic:the climax or end of the krish movie is very good.
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(Tag: ) crescendo,sounds like"creep shadow", lets imagine, a shadow of a creepy person, saw it self in the mirror and started gradually screaming! " basically because he was scared from his own reflection" -creep shadow crescendo.
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