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OldBrit "descrescendo". Ye Gods! Who the Hell invented that b****y awful word?
I heard it first by chance on a Schools Radio music programme some years ago, and thought the BBC ought be ashamed of itself for using such a concoction.
Crescendo, like most formal musical terms, is Italian; and its opposite is
Diminuendo - not "decrescendo"!
I notice though the example is American - i.e. of the nation that thinks an 'o' on the word "American" means plain black coffee is somehow Italian. The give-away being the words "Staff" (stave) and " Measure" (bar) - though it does use "bar line".
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I'd always known the foot-cymbal to be called the "Hi-hat" - I have no idea why - but a drum primer I bought, written by a strict-tempo dance-band drummer, called it the "Charleston Pedal", I assume its original name.
