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Perdendosi

Dying away, becoming softer and usually slower.

Category
dynamics
Pronunciation
per-DEN-doh-see
Origin

Italian

Length
77 words · 1 min read

About Perdendosi

Perdendosi (literally "losing itself") instructs the performer to let the sound gradually dissolve into silence, combining a decrease in both volume and tempo. Unlike a simple diminuendo, perdendosi implies the music should seem to disappear rather than merely get quieter.
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