decrescendo

Similarly, in a given song you may find an ascending line marked/not marked with a decrescendo.

Yes, crescendo looks like a < stretched horizontally based on the length of time that the rise should happen, decrescendo is >.

Forget the relationship to the math symbols, and think of it as music symbols: < is crescendo (play gradually louder): > is decrescendo.

But a good director, or even better a good singer, doesn't need every single phrase punctuated by a crescendo and decrescendo, for example.

People talk about the graphics, but it was the crescendo and decrescendo of guard sounds/singing/footsteps in Thief that made it one of the most immersive games I’ve ever played.

This could be a fantastic learning tool, my music professor described how to crescendo into the tension and decrescendo into the release but being able to experiment with this tool could help you get an idea of what you want to do before your fingers have the right touch to do it.

> its nice to add a breathing quality to a line by adding some kind of cyclical dynamic, then also being able to add a crescendo on top of that, or being able to decrescendo while still maintaining some kind of pattern of accents or dynamic phrasing.

So in rehearsal they stop and point to the horns and say "I want you to crescendo / decrescendo here" and have them do it until good.