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