Words And Symbols Flashcards
A niente
Let the music fade away to nothing
Calando
Getting softer (and slower)
Capriccioso
Playfully
Con anima
Lively, with spirit
di bravura
With brilliance
Impetuoso
Impetuously
Lacrimoso
As if in tears
Mesto
Sad
Sotto voce
Subdued, in an undertone
Con sordino
With mute
Divisi
Divide the music as marked
Martellato
Strongly accented (bowed)
Senza sordino
Without mute
Solo
One instrument to play a solo
sul E
Play the music on the prescribed string (bowed)
Tacet
Be silent (often for a movement)
Tremolo
Play a note (or notes) as fast as possible, so as to produce a trembling effect
Tutte le corde/ tre corde/ t.c.
All the strings (pedal marking for piano)
Tutti
All play together
Vibrato
All notes to be played with vibrato or vibrating the note using the diaphragm.
Volti subito/ v.s.
Turn the page quickly
Ad libitum
Play in your own time,freely
Affrettando
Speed up, hurry
Doppio movimento
Double the speed
General pause/ g.p
All players silent as long as the rest shows
Quasi
Like
Virtuoso
A player who has absolute mastery of his/her instrument or voice
Stretto
Speed up
`/.
Repeat the previous bars music once or for as many times as the number written above the sign shows.
`//.2
Should repeat the previous 2 bars’ music.
C//G
Should play notes from the chord of C for the first 3 beats of the bar and change to the chord of G in the last beat.
