Music terms and their definitions
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| Allegro | fast
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| a2 | both
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| Andante | Moderatly slow
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| Sostenuto | sustained
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| Sempre | always
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| Ad Lib | at the perfomer's liberty
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| poco | little
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| Con lengo | with the wood of the bow
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| div. | divided parts
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| Tempo Primo | first tempo
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| tutti | all
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| Con moto | with motion
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| Marcatto | accented
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| G.P. | Grand Pause
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| Poco a Poco | little by little
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| Staccato | short and separated
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| Moderato | Moderately
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| A tempo | original tempo
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| Cantando | singing
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| Solo | one
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| Ritard | gradually slow down
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| Meno mosso | less motion
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| Decrescendo | Decreasing in loudness
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| Diminuendo | Gradually softer
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| Sonore | sonorously
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| Accel. | accelerate
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| Pesante | Heavy
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| Fine | The end
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| Feroce | fierce
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| Forte | Loud
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| Fortissimo | Very loud
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| Glissando | Gliding, rapid scales, played with a sliding movement
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| Interval | Distance in pitch between notes
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| Dolce | Sweetly
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| Tacet al fine | be silent to the end
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| Largo | At a slow, dignified pace
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| Lento | Slow
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| Legato | Smoothly
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| Arco | to bow the violin rather than pluck the strings
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| Piu vivo | more animated/briskly
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| Octave | Interval made up of 8 successive notes of scale
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| Percussion instruments | Instruments that are struck including drums, cymbals, xylophone, tambourine, castanets, etc.
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| Pianissimo | Play very softly
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| Piano | Play softly
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| Pitch | Highness or lowness in sound of one note compared with another
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| Pizzicato | Playing strings by plucking rather than bowing
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| Presto | Very fast
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| Prima donna | Principal female singer in a cast
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| Rallentando | Getting slower
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| Rest | Sign denoting silence
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| Ritardando | Slowing down
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| Scale | Progression of successive notes ascending or descending
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| Brass | 1. trumpet 2. French horn 3. trombone 4. tuba
i.e. euphonium, cornet, figle horn, melophone, sousaphone
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| Sharp | Conventional sign indicating that the note should be raised by a semitone
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| Soprano | Highest female voice
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| Staccato | In a short, detached fashion
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| Staff | Framework of lines and spaces on which music is written
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| Stringed instruments | 1. violin 2. viola 3. cello 4. double bass
i.e. guitar, mandalyn, banjo, piano, harp
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| Syncopation | Shifting of accent onto a beat not normally accented
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| Tenor | High male voice
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| Time signature | Figures written at the beginning of a piece indicating kinds of beats in a bar and their number
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| Espr | (gasping espressivo)to be played with expression
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| Vibrato | Rapid regular fluctuation in pitch of a note
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| Woodwind instruments | 1. flute 2. oboe 3. clarinet 4. basoon
i.e. piccolo, recorder, bass clarinet, english horn
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