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Crescendo is a musical term directing a gradual increase in loudness, originating from the Italian term for "growing" or the Latin crēscere. Pronounced "kruh-SHEN-doh," it is written in music notation as the abbreviation "cresc." or via a hairpin symbol (<) that widens. Its opposite is decrescendo, which means to grow quieter.