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- A tempo
- Back to previous tempo
- a2
- After divisi signifying unison playing
- Accompaniment
- Parts in support of melody
- Ad libitum
- At liberty
- Aire
- Song
- Alla
- In the style of
- Alla breve
- Cut time, 2/2
- Allargando
- Louder and slower
- Anacrusis
- Pick up notes
- Andantino
- A little slower than andante
- Arioso
- Lyrically, expresively
- Arrange
- Set a composition for a different medium
- Assai
- Very
- Atonal
- Having no tone or key center
- Attacca
- Attached
- Augmented
- Increased by one half step
- Baroque
- 1600-1750, ornamented and elaborate
- Cadenza
- Unmetered solo
- Canto, chanson
- Song
- Chord
- Two or more tones played simultaneously
- Classical
- 1750-1820, highly structured
- Colla
- With the
- Diminished
- Decreased by 1/2 step
- Dimiuendo
- Get softer gradually
- Ensemble
- Precision playing
- Grave
- Slowest tempo, solem
- Harmony
- Simultaneous pitches
- Intonation
- Exactness of pitch production
- L'istesso tempo
- Keep the same tempo
- Laisser Vibre
- Let vibrate
- Largamente
- Broadly
- Loco
- As written
- Ma non troppo
- But not too much
- Melody
- Single pitches played sequentially
- Meno
- Less
- Meter
- Pattern of fixed beats to measure music
- Minor
- W H W W H W W Step pattern
- Modulation
- Changing from one key to another
- Mosso, moto
- Motion
- Motif
- Short melodic fragment
- Opus
- Published work
- Overture
- The introduction to a musical or opera
- Perfect
- Unisons, octaves, fourths, and fifths
- Pesante
- Heavily
- Piu
- More
- Poco
- Little
- Relative Minor
- Scale a minor third below major, having the same key signatures
- Rythm
- Organization of beats in time
- Ritenuto
- Slowing down immediatly
- Romantic
- 1820-1900, appealing to the emotions
- Rondo
- ABACABA in form
- Rubato
- Freely
- Scale
- Division of the octave
- Scherzando
- Playfully
- Sempre
- Always
- Sonata
- Multi-movement piece for solo instrument
- Sordino
- Mute
- Sostenuto
- Sustained
- Strain
- Section within a march
- Stringendo
- Pressing foreward
- Subito
- Suddenly
- Tacet
- Silent, having no part
- Tempo 1
- Take the original tempo
- Transcribe
- Adapt for different instruments
- Transition
- Changes in key, tempo, or style
- Trio
- Third strain of a march, or three players
- Turn
- An embellishment
- Valse
- Waltz
- Vibrato
- Rapid fluctuation of pitch
- Vivace
- Lively, quick