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Updated: June 15, 2025
The Pilgrims approached crescendo; drew near forte; passed fortissimo; marched away diminuendo; were almost lost in the distance piano pianissimo. Uplifted bows and silence. "Good!" said a hearty voice behind them. Everybody looked up, smiling even the second violin. His children always smiled when Mr. Roderick Birch came in.
Fascinated in his inspection and direction of certain minor changes, he was astonished when the noise suddenly dropped from fortissimo to a dull whine, as the mill slowed down to a stop for the noon hour.
The magic perfume of the melody for the horns was now shed over the PIANISSIMO indicated in the score for the strings. The Violoncellos similarly reduced the usual heavy accent, which was now heard above the tremolo of the violins like the delicate sigh it is intended to be, and which finally gave to the fortissimo that follows the crescendo that air of desperation which properly belongs to it.
It was fairly cool under the big tree by the track fence, and the click of Blister's stop-watch, with his varied comments on what those clicks recorded, drifted out of my consciousness much as had the dust-clouds. Even the thr-rump, thr-rump, thr-rump of flying hoofs crescendo, fortissimo, diminuendo finally became meaningless.
The physical fatigue of the day made one of the party develop a phenomenal capacity for snoring in his heavy sleep, and in the quiet his nasal trumpeting grew more pronounced. It proceeded by phrases, as it were, each effort stronger than the preceding, till a fortissimo passage came and ended with a snort which echoed through the room and was followed by perfect silence.
'I'm afraid you won't see the Scottish hills, shouted Mary, holding on her little cloth hat. She was obliged to shout at the top of her voice, though she was close to Mr. Hammond's elbow, for that shrill screaming wind would have drowned the voice of a stentor. 'Never mind the view, replied Hammond in the same fortissimo, 'but I really wish I hadn't brought you up here.
But when he came to what he conceived the pith of his argument or the point of his joke, he mouthed out his words with slow emphasis; as a hen, when advertising her accouchement, passes at irregular intervals from pianissimo semiquavers to fortissimo crotchets. He thought this speech of Mr.
She sang straight on, verse after verse without pause. There was no modulation, no phrasing, no interpretation; it was merely a steady fortissimo outpouring of a remarkable volume of tone for so small an instrument. And the full power of it was, to all appearance, sent upwards with intent to the gallery.
The ceremony connected with the song was a drinking ceremony. "And may his doings prosper, Whate'er he takes in hand, For we are all his servants, And are at his command." But now, immediately before the third quatrain or chorus, sung fortissimo, with emphatic raps on the table, which gave the effect of cymbals and drum together.
The effectiveness of intensity may be greatly increased through contrast the pianissimo after the fortissimo; the pathos of the fifth act of Hamlet set off by the comedy of the first scene.
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