Meaning & use
Morendo
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A musical direction indicating that a passage should fade away gradually in both tempo and volume.
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The final chord was marked morendo, dying softly into silence.
The conductor signaled a morendo ending, letting the orchestra's sound dissolve.
A note on using this word
Borrowed directly from Italian, where morendo literally means 'dying,' the term is used in scores much like ritardando or diminuendo.
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