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Dying away — getting both slower and softer simultaneously.
Calando combines diminuendo and ritardando into a single instruction. Use it when a passage should fade to nothing in both volume and energy — endings of sections, transitions to silence, moments of exhaustion.
Debussy uses calando frequently in his Préludes to let passages dissolve into silence.
Calando is one of 228 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary, where every definition is written around how composers actually use the word.
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