Crescendo
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Crescendo may mean:
- In musical notation, crescendo refers to a passage of music during which the volume gradually increases. The opposite of crescendo is diminuendo or decrescendo. Maurice Ravel's orchestral work, Boléro is one of the world's longest musical crescendoes. Beginning quietly, the melody repeats over and over again, gradually increasing in volume for about fifteen minutes. Scriabin's piano piece Vers la flamme is another example of a piece that consists of one huge crescendo.
- One of Duke Ellington's longer-form compositions is called Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue, which also describes the form of the piece.
- A term Alfred Hitchcock used to describe the major setpieces in his films.
- Crescendo is also the name of a bishoujo game by the studio Digital Objet.
- Insanity's Crescendo, a song by Dark Tranquillity.
- Crescendo is also a gay porn film by famous French director Jean-Daniel Cadinot.
- Crescendo is also an Italian and a Portuguese word which means "growing".
- Crescendo was a computer networking company that was acquired by Cisco in the 1990s.
- Crescendo Festival in a musical festival in France.
- Crescendo Festival in Russia is a classical musical festival annually hold in Russia.
- Crescendo International is a network of Christian classical professional musicians and music students.
