0 a gradual increase in loudness, or the moment when a noise or piece of music is at its loudest:
1 a gradual increase in loudness, or the moment when a noise or piece of music is at its loudest
He added innovative dynamic devices such as extended crescendos, simple "tutti" chordal textures and slow harmonic rhythm.
Her singing gets higher and louder as she employs melodic crescendos.
The sincerest compliment power pays to wealth is the crescendo of corruption and profiteering among cadres that occasioned the protests of early 1989.
The structure, lyrical content and soaring crescendos suit well the back track of the class.
The music has been described as cinematic in quality and in its reoccurring use of big crescendos.
The group play brooding songs featuring sparse piano and guitar, baritone vocals, uplifting choral passages and reverberant orchestral crescendos.
Here the excitement is brought front and centre, both halves of the piece racing in crescendos toward a pair of chords marked "forte".
Instead of providing a translation of his verbal crescendos, the sequence is overlaid with a speaker talking about something different.
