"crescendi" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1964, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov et al., Principles of orchestration: with musical examples drawn from his own works, DoverPublications.com, →ISBN, page 112:",
          "text": "Short crescendi and diminuendi are generally produced by natural dynamic means; when prolonged, they are obtained by this method combined with other orchestral devices. […] Prolonged orchestral crescendi are obtained by the gradual addition of other instruments in the following order: strings, wood-wind, brass.",
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          "text": "Wrong crescendi, which should be avoided, tend to appear at the end of passages ascending to the apex of melodies[.]"
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          "text": "Furthermore, organ builders were at liberty to construct their register crescendi so that stops entered either one at a time or in groups of two or more. […] Of course, a sensitive organist would not rely wholly or even predominantly upon a register crescendo to effect stop changes, particularly when those changes had more to do with simple manipulation of tone color than with progressive crescendi.",
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