Crescendos & Decrescendos: Playing Tuba

Video Transcript

"Hi everybody, Kevin back here, Mr. TubaLove, and I'm talking about something called crescendo and decrescendo in music. And this accompanies what I was just saying concerning volume. Crescendo, c r e s c e n d o. It comes from an Italian word crescere, c r e s c e r e, just means to increase and if you put the letters d e in front of it, that's the opposite. So, crescendo, increase volume. Decrescendo, decrease volume. And the importance of these terms, and you'll also if you're seeing sheet music. What you see sometimes is a symbol like a triangle. Sorry I don't have the diagram, but if you see like pointing up and out like toward where the music's going from the left to the right and the triangle's opening up, they're telling you get louder as you play. Just the opposite, if the triangle, if the point's coming in to the right as you're playing, that's another way diagrammatically of expressing what they want for a decrescendo or getting softer. But it's just another way and these types of music you play soft, you play loud. It increases the dramatic effect. Gets the ebb and the flow going. So that you can convey sometimes a very wide range of emotional feelings and tones etc. So."