diminuzione

a gradual decrease in loudness or the musical direction indicating this: Abbreviation: dim, (written over the music affected) ≻

: a gradual decrease in volume of a musical passage.

a gradual decrease in loudness Definition of 'diminuendo' a. a gradual decrease in loudness or the musical direction indicating this. Abbreviation: dim.

In the example pictured here, 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star' is first written using quarter notes and half notes. Then, everything is diminished to half its original length; all of the quarter notes become eighth notes, and all of the half notes become quarter notes.

Another example of diminuendo is found in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Here the composer uses the technique of diminuendo to make his orchestra whispering, hesitating, as the small fragments of melody appear and disappear, gently, softly, in a dreaming journey that leads from sound to silence.

Decrescendos are also sometimes called diminuendos. Crescendos and decrescendos can also be notated through the use of hairpin symbols < >. The hairpin with the pointed end to the left (<) represents a crescendo and the hairpin with the pointed end to the right (>) represents a decrescendo.

decrescendo (or diminuendo) al pianissimo means - decrease gradually in power until the pianissimo (or very soft) point is reached.

For slow transitions between dynamics, a composer must use a crescendo or a decrescendo (diminuendo). A crescendo is used for gradually getting louder, and a decrescendo or diminuendo is used for gradually getting softer.

The A diminished triad consists of the notes A, C and E♭. The 2 inversions to the A diminished triad are C E♭ A and E♭ A C. The A diminished 7th chord, abbreviated as Adim7 or A°7, has the notes A, C, E♭ and G♭.

Dynamics express to the musician how loud to play the music. We can think of dynamics as a kind of scale, with many intermediate steps between very loud and very soft. The names of these steps all use either forte or piano, meaning loud and soft. For example, fortissimo and pianissimo are very loud and very soft.

If you take away the firepower in a battle, for example, you diminish the ammunition, causing a diminution of the army's power. A diminution is a decrease of size, time, or esteem.

Diminution refers to the process of halving a motif's rhythmic values, so that each quarter note becomes an eighth note, and so on. In effect, the following process re-notates any passage so that it halves every note's value.