Messa di voce (Italian, placing the voice) is a musical technique that involves a gradual crescendo and diminuendo while sustaining a single pitch.

During the Romantic period, the organ became more symphonic, capable of creating a gradual crescendo.

A thunderous beginning leads into a gradual crescendo and accelerando consisting of layered polyrhythms in various registers.

Each time the key changes (first up a third, then down a third) and there is a gradual crescendo and diminuendo.

The sound rises in a gradual crescendo, as the solo voices alternately join or contrast with the chorus.

For the first 15 minutes, there were no words at all, just tolling bass lines, sustained guitar chords and very gradual crescendos, heaving like tectonic plates.

A gradual crescendo leads into a dramatic woodwinds and strings section.

She thoughtfully organizes the tour downhill, from north to south, but reversing the direction creates a gradual crescendo as you begin the climb up Murray Hill.

Orpheus is not a long work and takes the form of a gradual crescendo followed by a quiet ending which returns to the mood of the opening.

After a gradual crescendo, the duo reaches a climax marked by a descending scale.