perdendosi

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noun

A gradual fading away.

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Meanings

noun
  1. entertainmentA gradual fading away.

    Then towards the end you hear them both interlaced, and both are being resolved in a perdendosi.

    1958, Edgar Mittelhölzer, The Old Blood, page 495
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    For the AnC period, Karlgren (Études, pp. 38-39) describes the Four tones p'ing ('even perdendosi'), shang ('rising perdendosi'), ch'u ('probably falling perdendosi'), ju (ex abrupto), but then ...

    1959, University of California Publications in East Asiatic Philology

    The final nine bars must be played in strict time: the perdendosi effect relies on the lessening of rhythmic activity rather than a slackening of tempo.

    1999, Graham Steed, The Organ Works of Marcel Dupré, →ISBN, page 79
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