Crescendo
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Crescendo, in musical notation, refers to a passage of music during which the volume gradually increases.
It also may mean:
In music
- A Liverpool based electronic pop band
- Crescendo International, a network of Christian classical music professionals and students
- Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue, one of Duke Ellington's longer-form compositions
- Insanity's Crescendo, a song by Dark Tranquillity
- The Crescendos, an early rock and roll group
- A lyric in "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, King of pop
In film
- Crescendo (1970 film), a 1970 British thriller
- Crescendo, a 2003 gay pornographic film by French director Jean-Daniel Cadinot.
- A term Alfred Hitchcock used to describe the major setpieces in his films
In computing
- Crescendo was a computer networking company that was acquired by Cisco in the 1990s.
- Crescendo Networks is a company which develops and sells application acceleration devices for data centers
- Crescendo (visual novel), a bishoujo game by the studio Digital Objet.
- Crescendo Systems Corporation is a Canadian company that develops and sells digital dictation, speech recognition and document management software for the healthcare and legal sectors.
In languages other than English
- Crescendo is an Italian and Portuguese word which means "growing"

