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(music) A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly / (music) A passage having this mark / (metaphoric) The gradual dying away of something.

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diminuendo

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diminuendo

IPA(Pronunciation)

/dɪˌmɪnjuːˈɛndəʊ/

Noun

metaphoric

(music) A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly / (music) A passage having this mark / (metaphoric) The gradual dying away of something.

Japanese Meaning

(音楽) 漸弱記号（パッセージをだんだんと弱く演奏するよう指示する記号） / (音楽) 漸弱記号が示された楽句・楽節 / (比喩的) 何かが徐々に衰えて消えていく様子

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The conductor signaled a clear diminuendo to bring the orchestra down to a whisper.

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指揮者はオーケストラをささやくような音量にするために、明確な音量を徐々に小さくする指示を出した。

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(music) A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly

Sense（2）

(music) A passage having this mark

Sense（3）

(metaphoric) The gradual dying away of something.

Thus, in "Flavia and Her Artists" (1905), for example, a fiction of consonance in diminuendo, the French subtext states a set of harmonies (the young American returned from France) and cacophonies (the supercilious French art critic, Roux) shedding light on the main text with its own consonances of intergenerationsl friendship, marital loyalty, artistic pleasure, and joyful lesbianism.

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