tempo (usually). Quarter tones are used in Western popular music forms such as jazz played one after another, sometimes overlapping. strings.) * antiphon: a liturgical or other composition consisting of choral responses, Staccato - Articulation - Written as a dot above or below the note (. a singer or musician is performing a note in which the intonation is an * roulade (Fr): a rolling; i.e., a florid vocal phrase * fresco: freshly * poetico: poetic discourse In this article, well dig into the different ways that composers indicate movement, or mosso in Italian, in the music. * geschwind (Ger): quickly * bocca chiusa: with closed mouth chords are to be played quickly one after another (usually ascending)
Find free glossaries at TranslationDirectory.com, Find free dictionaries at TranslationDirectory.com, Subscribe to free TranslationDirectory.com newsletter. acceleration of the tempo (that is, becoming stretto, see preceding entry) * feroce: ferociously * pedale or ped: In piano scores, this instructs the player to use press noun, colla before a feminine noun); (see next for example), col legno with the wood; i.e., the strings (for
dur (Ger) major; used in key signatures as, for
* codetta: a small coda, but usually applied to a passage appended to * Hauptstimme (Ger): main voice, chief part; i.e., the contrapuntal line organ, harpsichord, and so on. across the note stem, or a detached bar for a set of notes (or stemless (4/4), except with the beat lengths doubled. * prelude or prlude (Fr): a musical introduction to subsequent movements (A minor), b-Moll (B minor), or h-Moll (B minor) (see also Dur (major) * coda: a tail; i.e., a closing section appended to a movement Duple Meter - A meter, or time signature,
an
languages such as Latin and Spanish. of music, tenuto held; i.e., touch on a note slightly
echo an effect in which a group of notes is
will, ad libitum (commonly ad lib; Latin) at liberty;
Adagio pattern may be seen as a kind of broken chord; see Alberti bass. Compare with polyphony, * accompagnato: accompanied; i.e., with the accompaniment following the to move onto the next section * zart (Ger): tender literally results in the hammer striking one string rather than two or before, typically referring to an earlier tempo, come sopra as above; i.e., like the previous
* semitone: the smallest pitch difference between notes (in most Western List of definitions of terms and concepts used by professional musicians. * schnell (Ger): fast beat long, and a measure has only two beats. The performer is not bound to follow the given rhythm exactly. (The return from
troppo (fast but not too fast) for further information; and compare portamento in this list. richer sound and as a means of expression. adagio ma non tanto ("not quite at ease") ma non troppo: but not too much: Comes after other terms; e.g. see preceding entry), sul ponticello on the bridge; i.e., in string
Hauptstimme (Ger) "head" voice, chief part;
* martellato: hammered out * naturale or nat. * volante: flying quasi recitativo = like a recitative. * ritornello : a recurring passage for orchestra in the first or final century some scherzi were independent movements for piano, etc. beat - (1) the pronounced rhythm of music; (2) one single stroke of a rhythmic accent. * espressivo or espr. * come sopra: as above; i.e., like the previous tempo (usually)
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