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Mälzel Metronome This marking is typically found at the beginning of a composition and originally stood for "Mälzel Metronome" (named after the inventor Johann Nepomuk Mälzel)," but has since come to designate "Metronome Marking. This marking identifies the tempo of the composition in terms of the number of beats per minute.

a gradual decrease in the loudness Britannica Dictionary definition of DIMINUENDO. [count] music. : a gradual decrease in the loudness of a section of music.

an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both.

tim·​bre ˈtam-bər ˈtim- : the quality of a sound or musical tone determined by its overtones and different for each voice or instrument.

“Milli” comes from the Latin word “mille,” meaning one-thousandth. Therefore, a millimeter is one-thousandth of a meter. The symbol of a millimeter is “mm.”

In finance and accounting, MM (or lowercase “mm”) commonly denotes that the units of figures presented are in millions. The Roman numeral M denotes thousands. In this context, MM is the same as writing “M multiplied by M,” which is equal to “1,000 times 1,000,” which equals 1,000,000 (one million).

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.

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.

So next time you are listening to a piece of music, try to separate out the parts and listen to how each of the Elements of Music are being used. Listen for the Dynamics, Form, Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, Texture, Timbre and Tonality. You might even want to start keeping a listening journal of the music you hear.

“Hurrian Hymn No. 6” is considered the world's earliest melody, but the oldest musical composition to have survived in its entirety is a first century A.D. Greek tune known as the “Seikilos Epitaph.” The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman's gravesite in Turkey.

Timbre(Pronounced Tam-ber) is the quality of a musical note. It is what makes a musical note sound different from another one. Words like round, brassy, sharp, or bright can be used to describe the timbre of a sound.

This is what timbre is all about. Timbre is also known as tone quality, tone color, or voice. Some of the many words used to describe the timbre of instruments include rich, bright, mellow, dark, buzzy, and warm.