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Losing itself — getting softer and often slower, disappearing completely.
The most poetic of the "dying away" markings. Perdendosi implies the music is literally losing itself — dissolving, vanishing. Use it for mystical endings, dream-like dissolutions, or moments where the music seems to evaporate into air.
Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 ("Les Adieux"), first movement — the opening horn-call motif returns perdendosi, as if the departing friend is disappearing into the distance.
Perdendosi 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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