CRESCENDO

'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 sells application acceleration devices for data centers.

★ Crescendo Systems is a Canadian company that develops digital dictation, speech recognition, transcription and workflow management systems for healthcare, legal and law enforcement professionals.