What does the musical term cresendo mean?

Answer 1

A cresendo is when start soft and work your way up.

Actually, that's not exactly correct. Crescendo simply means to gradually get louder. You don't necessarily start soft, you get louder from whatever volume level you are currently playing.

Answer 2

the music's volume slowly going up; not at once; usually according to the conductor's place.

Answer 3

the meaning for tution is gradually getting louder and the meaning of deminuendo is gradually getting quiter

Answer 4

The musical term crescendo means to get louder. The symbol that goes with the term is usually an elongated lesser than sign.

Answer 5

The musical term crescendo means gradually getting louder. The opposite of crescendo is diminuendo or decrescendo which mean gradually getting quieter.

Answer 6

A crescendo can be defined as a gradual increase in loudness in a piece of music.

Answer 7

It describes a passage in which the music gets progressively louder.