"gradual" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Messa di voce (Italian, placing the voice) is a musical technique that involves a gradual crescendo and diminuendo while sustaining a single pitch.
- During the Romantic period, the organ became more symphonic, capable of creating a gradual crescendo.
- A thunderous beginning leads into a gradual crescendo and accelerando consisting of layered polyrhythms in various registers.
- Each time the key changes (first up a third, then down a third) and there is a gradual crescendo and diminuendo.
- The sound rises in a gradual crescendo, as the solo voices alternately join or contrast with the chorus.
- For the first 15 minutes, there were no words at all, just tolling bass lines, sustained guitar chords and very gradual crescendos, heaving like tectonic plates.
- A gradual crescendo leads into a dramatic woodwinds and strings section.
- She thoughtfully organizes the tour downhill, from north to south, but reversing the direction creates a gradual crescendo as you begin the climb up Murray Hill.
- Orpheus is not a long work and takes the form of a gradual crescendo followed by a quiet ending which returns to the mood of the opening.
- After a gradual crescendo, the duo reaches a climax marked by a descending scale.
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