diminuendos

Not that there's any lack of huge, cavernous sound, and sound-effect; endless very slow, melody-free crescendos and diminuendos, uncanny thuds and knocks in the music's far distance, drones and whines and very-long-held notes that go up a semitone, stay there for a long time, and then slide back down again.

Lustmord, The Place Where The Black Stars Hang (1994); Stalker (1995) Adam Roberts 2010

Not that there's any lack of huge, cavernous sound, and sound-effect; endless very slow, melody-free crescendos and diminuendos, uncanny thuds and knocks in the music's far distance, drones and whines and very-long-held notes that go up a semitone, stay there for a long time, and then slide back down again.

Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010

She is like a symphony of modern music, full of immense gradual crescendos, gradual diminuendos, unknown to the old masters.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

The soul feels the need for the _crescendos_ and _diminuendos_ intuitively.

Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression James Francis Cooke 1917

All the long forenoon, amid the wild, or menacing, or warning, or complaining crescendos and diminuendos of the unresting saws, the man's brain seethed with plans of vengeance.

Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

The torrential splendor of his pianism, his mighty crescendos and whispering diminuendos, his marvelous variety of tone -- all were in the nature of a revelation; his personal magnetism carried everything before it.

Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Harriette Brower 1898

In Persian songs, too, an _andante_ movement with chorus joining in every few bars frequently occurs, but in the Persian chorus we generally find a liking for chromatic diminuendos and crescendos, which are not so frequent in Beluch music.

Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

His aunt was vastly susceptible to music, and he would heap upon her (in the absence of any other) all those passionate reproaches for cruelty and faithlessness proper to the rôle -- welling crescendos and plaintive diminuendos and long, slow rallentandos, followed quickly by panting and impassioned accelerandos.

With the Procession Henry Blake Fuller 1893

In diminuendos and accelerandos and ritenutos he was just as faithful.

Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians John F. Runciman 1891

"Perhaps you didn't know," he added after a pause filled by the crescendos and diminuendos of the speeding train, "that your father and I were pretty thick."

In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date Clara Louise Burnham 1890