Words And Symbols

Question 1

A niente

Answer 1

Let the music fade away to nothing

Question 2

Calando

Answer 2

Getting softer (and slower)

Question 3

Capriccioso

Answer 3

Playfully

Question 4

Con anima

Answer 4

Lively, with spirit

Question 5

di bravura

Answer 5

With brilliance

Question 6

Impetuoso

Answer 6

Impetuously

Question 7

Lacrimoso

Answer 7

As if in tears

Question 8

Mesto

Answer 8

Sad

Question 9

Sotto voce

Answer 9

Subdued, in an undertone

Question 10

Con sordino

Answer 10

With mute

Question 11

Divisi

Answer 11

Divide the music as marked

Question 12

Martellato

Answer 12

Strongly accented (bowed)

Question 13

Senza sordino

Answer 13

Without mute

Question 14

Solo

Answer 14

One instrument to play a solo

Question 15

sul E

Answer 15

Play the music on the prescribed string (bowed)

Question 16

Tacet

Answer 16

Be silent (often for a movement)

Question 17

Tremolo

Answer 17

Play a note (or notes) as fast as possible, so as to produce a trembling effect

Question 18

Tutte le corde/ tre corde/ t.c.

Answer 18

All the strings (pedal marking for piano)

Question 19

Tutti

Answer 19

All play together

Question 20

Vibrato

Answer 20

All notes to be played with vibrato or vibrating the note using the diaphragm.

Question 21

Volti subito/ v.s.

Answer 21

Turn the page quickly

Question 22

Ad libitum

Answer 22

Play in your own time,freely

Question 23

Affrettando

Answer 23

Speed up, hurry

Question 24

Doppio movimento

Answer 24

Double the speed

Question 25

General pause/ g.p

Answer 25

All players silent as long as the rest shows

Question 26

Quasi

Answer 26

Like

Question 27

Virtuoso

Answer 27

A player who has absolute mastery of his/her instrument or voice

Question 28

Stretto

Answer 28

Speed up

Question 29

`/.

Answer 29

Repeat the previous bars music once or for as many times as the number written above the sign shows.

Question 30

`//.2

Answer 30

Should repeat the previous 2 bars’ music.

Question 31

C//G

Answer 31

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.