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Glossary Of Foreign Terms Flashcards

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Adagio e spiccato

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Italian for ‘Slowly and played spiccato’

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Adagio e mesto

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Italian for ‘Slowly and sadly’

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Allegro agitato e appassionato assai

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Italian for ‘Quickly, restlessly and very passionately’

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Animez un peu

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French for ‘Liven it up a little’

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A punta d’arco

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Italian for ‘With the point of the bow’

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Arco

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Italian for ‘Play with the bow (a direction following a pizzicato passage)’

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Avec plus d’abandon

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French for ‘Play more freely’

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Baguettes de bois recouvert en peau

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French for ‘Wooden drumsticks covered with leather’

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Baguette d’eponge

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French for ‘Sponge headed drumsticks’

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Bläs

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German for ‘Woodwind’

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Colla parte

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Italian for ‘Follow the soloist’

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Colla voce

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Italian for ‘Follow the voice’

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Come sopra

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Italian for ‘As above/before’

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Commencer lentement dans un rythme nonchalamment gracieux

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French for ‘Start slowly in a graceful carefree rhythm’

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Con sordini

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Italian for ‘With mutes’

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Crescendo da niente

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Italian for ‘Getting louder, from nothing’

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Délicatement et presque sans nuances

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French for ‘Delicately and almost dynamic change’

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Diminuendo al niente

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Italian for ‘Getting gradually quieter, fading to nothing’

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Double corde

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French for ‘Double stopped’

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En allant se perdant

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French for ‘Gradually dying away’

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mf en augmentant beaucoup

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French for ‘Moderately loud and getting increasingly louder’

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En dehors

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French for ‘A direction to make the melody stand out’

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En serrant un peu

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French for ‘Getting a little faster’

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Estremamente flautando

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Italian for ‘Very flute-like’

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Estremamente sul ponticello

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Italian for ‘Play extremely near the bridge’

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Expressif (et lointain)

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French for ‘Expressive (and distant sounding)’

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Flttz.

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German for ‘Flutter tongue’

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Laissez vibrer

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French for ‘Allow to resonate, do not damp’

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Léger et lointain

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French for ‘Light and distant sounding’

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Lento assai

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Italian for ‘Very slowly’

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Lento molto sostenuto

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Italian for ‘Slow and very sustained’

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Lentement

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French for ‘Slowly’

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Modérémemt animé

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French for ‘Moderately lively’

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Molto forzando e feroce

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Italian for ‘Fierecely and very strongly accented

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Muta in

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Italian for ‘Change e.g. ‘muta in piccolo’, change to the piccolo’

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Pavillons en l’air

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French for ‘Bells in the air’

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Perdendo

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Italian for ‘Gradually dying away’

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Poco rubato

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Italian for ‘With a little rhythmic flexibility’

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Poco scherzando

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Italian for ‘A little playfully’

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Quasi da lontano

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Italian for ‘As if from a distance’

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Retenu

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French for ‘Held back’

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Revenez au 1 tempo

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French for ‘Return to the first tempo’

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Retenu jusqu’au premier movement

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French for ‘Held back until [you return] to the original tempo’

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Sans lenteur

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French for ‘Without slowing down’

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Sans presser

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French for ‘Without hurrying’

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Sans ralentir

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French for ‘Without slowing down’

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Senza sordini

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Italian for ‘Without mutes’

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Senza vibrato

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Italian for ‘Without vibrato’

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Sotta voce

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Italian for ‘In an undertone, literally below the voice’

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Spiccato

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Italian for ‘A bowing technique in which the bow appears to bounce lightly upon the string’

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Sul ponticello

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Italian for ‘On the bridge. Instruction to the string player to take the bow as near as possible to the bridge resulting in a rather metallic mysterious tone’

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Sul tasto

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Italian for ‘Instruction to the string player to bow (or occasionally pluck) near or over the fingerboard, resulting in an ethereal tone’

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Tempo guisto

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Italian for ‘Strictly in time’

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Tempo rubato

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Italian for ‘With flexible rhythm and tempo’

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Toujours animez

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French for ‘Always lively’

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Tout l’orchestre aussi doux que possible

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French for ‘All of the orchestra [play] as softly as possible’

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Très rhythmé, mf en augmentant beaucoup

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French for ‘Very rhythmic and getting a lot louder’

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Un peu plus vite

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French for ‘A little quicker’

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Un peu retenu

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French for ‘Slowing down a little’

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