Sudden Dynamic Change

Creator: 
Orchestra Della Toscana; Donato Renzetti (Conductor)
Description: 

A sudden dynamic change occurs in music when the volume drastically changes from soft to loud, or from loud to soft, without any gradation between the two. Eighteenth century composers often employed this effect in their music. 

Publisher: 
Arts Productions Ltd
Contributor: 
Laura Fehr
Rights: 
1994 Arts Music
Format: 
.wav
Type: 
Sound
Source: 

Excerpt from the Overture to Le Crescendo by Luigi Cherubini

Date: 
January 1, 1994
Location: 

Vicenza, Italy

Subject: 

Opera, Overture, Orchestra, Dynamics

Original Format: 
CD
Duration: 
00:13