Crescendo
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Crescendo may mean:
- In musical notation, crescendo refers to a passage of music during which the volume gradually increases.
- One of Duke Ellington's longer-form compositions is called Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue, which also describes the form of the piece.
- A term Alfred Hitchcock used to describe the major setpieces in his films.
- Crescendo is also the name of a bishoujo game by the studio Digital Objet.
- Insanity's Crescendo, a song by Dark Tranquillity.
- Crescendo is also a gay porn film by famous French director Jean-Daniel Cadinot.
- Crescendo is also an Italian and a Portuguese word which means "growing".
- Crescendo was a computer networking company that was acquired by Cisco in the 1990s.
- Crescendo Festival in a musical festival in France.
- Crescendo Festival in Russia is a classical musical festival annually hold in Russia.
- Crescendo International is a network of Christian classical professional musicians and music students.
- Crescendo Networks is a company which develops and and sells application acceleration devices for data centers.