Italian Words Flashcards
Allargando
Broadening out, getting gradually slower, often with an accompanying crescendo
A Cappella
Unaccompanied vocal music
Animato
Animated
Arco
Bowed
Attacca
Go on at once
Bravura
Dash and brilliancy
Con fuoco
With fire
Con moto
With movement
Con sord.
With mute(s)
Con spirito
With spirit
Espressivo
With expression
Giocoso
Jocular, merry
Largamente
Broadly, expansively
Lento
Slow
Niente
Nothing
Perdendosi
Dying away
Piacevole
Pleasantly
Pizz.
Plucked
Rubato
(Robbed) deviate from strict time, making some notes of the phrase longer than their written value and others shorter
Senza sord.
Without mutes
Simile
In a similar manner
Sostenuto
Sustained
Stringendo
Pressing, getting faster
Tacet
Silent
Tutti
All
A tempo
(In time) back to original speed