Citations:crescendo

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English citations of crescendoes

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  • 1985 October 31, Louis Daniel Brodsky, “Throughout the school, excitement crescendoes” (untitled poem), in Sheri L. Vandermolen (editor), The Complete Poems of Louis Daniel Brodsky, Volume Four: 1981-1985, Time Being Books (2008), →ISBN, page 907:
    Throughout the school, excitement crescendoes. / Each child prepares for transfiguration.
  • 2003, Lorraine Byrne, Schubert's Goethe Settings, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 112:
    Again Schubert observes the poetic divisions with a short piano interlude that crescendoes into the final strophe.
  • 2007, Jon Paulien, The Gospel From Patmos: Everyday Insights for Living From the Last Book of the Bible, Review and Herald Publishing Association, →ISBN, page 100:
    The scene starts slowly but then crescendoes and crescendoes, until the entire universe becomes a single vast antiphonal choir ringing out the praises of the Lamb and the One sitting on the throne (Rev. 5:11-14).