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Conducting Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accelerando | Getting faster |
| arco | bow |
| l'istesso | the same |
| marcato | marked |
| meno | less |
| mezzo | medium |
| morendo | dying away |
| molto | very |
| peu | a little |
| piu | more |
| rubato | flexibility of time |
| sans | without |
| secco | dry |
| senza | without |
| sordino | mute |
| sotto voce | under the voice |
| stringendo | speeding up |
| subito | sudden |
| tacet | be silent |
| tutti | all |
| a tempo | original tempo |
| adagio | slow |
| allargando | broadening |
| attacca | attack (go right on) |
| bouche | hand stopped |
| come prima | as before |
| da capo | to the head |
| fine | end |
| glissando | sliding |
| giusto | strict time |
| largamente | broadly |
| moderato | moderately |
| parlando | speaking |
| poco | little |
| presto | quick |
| ritardando | slowing down |
| ritenuto | held back |
| sempre | always |
| tenuto | held |
| vivace | lively |
| a due | duet |
| assai | very |
| con brio | spirited |
| calando | dying away and slowing down |
| col | with |
| dal segno | from the sign |
| divisi | divided |
| dolce | sweetly |
| dolente | mournfully |
| affrettando | hurried |
| expressivo | expressively |
| secco | dry |
| giocoso | happily |
| gioioso | joyfully |
| lento | slow |
| mosso | movement |
| ossia | or |
| piacevole | agreeable |
| piacere | @own pleasure |
| ravvivando | quickening |
| sul tasto | @ fingerboard |
| langsam | slow |
| simile | similar |
| cedez | yield |
| zuruckhalten | held back |
| tasto solo | left hand only |
| animoso | spirited |
| assez | rather |
| bewegt | motion |
| pesante | heavy |
| ripieno | tutti |
| doppio movimento | twice as fast |
| stretto | overlapping imitative entrances |
| ruhig | peacefully |
| ottava bassa | play an octave lower |
| ottava alta | play an octave higher |
| lebhaft | lively |
| smorzando | extinguishing |
| quasi | almost |
| mit | with |