Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective With a gradual decrease in volume and often tempo. Used chiefly as a direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, a direction to slacken the time and decrease the volume of tone gradually.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mus.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective gradually decreasing in tempo and volume
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Italian, present participle of calare, to slacken, from Latin calāre, from Greek khalān.]
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Examples
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My own favorite is calando, which I picked up from Webern.
Fragende Ode Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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