crescendo vs volume

crescendo and volume both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
crescendo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
volume	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, volume is a hypernym of crescendo; that is, volume is a word with a broader meaning than crescendo:

Other hypernyms of crescendo include intensity, loudness.

crescendo (noun)	volume (noun)
(music) a gradual increase in loudness	physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together
	the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction)
	the property of something that is great in magnitude
	a publication that is one of a set of several similar publications
	the amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object
	a relative amount

crescendo (adjective)	volume (adjective)
(music) gradually increasing in volume

crescendo (verb)	volume (verb)
grow louder