11. This may be used at the end of a diminuendo to indicate " fade out to nothing ". 12. The " reprise " of " Quam olim Abrahae " is sung in inversion, diminuendo instead of crescendo. 13. Trombones sharply pronounce a " D ", followed by tuba and oboe in a sudden diminuendo . 14. Ms . von Stade will most likely allow her career to wind down in a long, characteristically graceful diminuendo . 15. "Do it without any sense of diminuendo on each note, " he tells the string players. 16. Later, specifically in the A major section, there are some crescendos and diminuendos marked in the piano part. 17. A convex curve beginning and ending at the bottom of the staff indicates a crescendo and diminuendo , for example. 18. _Fred Shuster C-Jam All Stars / " Diminuendo , Crescendo and Blues " ( RCA Victor) 19. Over the course of the season, however, the familiar crescendos and diminuendos of the cars will sound subtly different. 20. This evoked the handwritten " diminuendo " style of gradually reducing the text size over the course of the first line.