1. A decrescendo brings the music back to an almost spooky piano within the next two bars.

2. Moments later the decrescendo arrives at piano and enters into a more meditative dialogue between piano and orchestra.

3. A decrescendo brings the music back to almost spooky piano within the next two bars.

4. The mood changes abruptly after six or seven bars of wayward decrescendo.

5. During breath holding, there was also a cyclic rise and fall (crescendo- decrescendo ) of S1 amplitude, but obviously, it was not related to respiratory cycle.

6. Ejection murmurs begin after S 1 and are usually crescendo - decrescendo ( diamond - shaped'), ending before S 2.

7. It seems to be an oversimplification to say that the positive emphasis is masculine, while the negative emphasis, with a decrescendo toward the climax, is feminine.