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Conducting Terms
Term | Definition |
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Accelerando | Getting faster |
arco | bow |
l'istesso | the same |
marcato | marked |
meno | less |
mezzo | medium |
morendo | dying away |
molto | very |
peu | a little |
piu | more |
rubato | flexibility of time |
sans | without |
secco | dry |
senza | without |
sordino | mute |
sotto voce | under the voice |
stringendo | speeding up |
subito | sudden |
tacet | be silent |
tutti | all |
a tempo | original tempo |
adagio | slow |
allargando | broadening |
attacca | attack (go right on) |
bouche | hand stopped |
come prima | as before |
da capo | to the head |
fine | end |
glissando | sliding |
giusto | strict time |
largamente | broadly |
moderato | moderately |
parlando | speaking |
poco | little |
presto | quick |
ritardando | slowing down |
ritenuto | held back |
sempre | always |
tenuto | held |
vivace | lively |
a due | duet |
assai | very |
con brio | spirited |
calando | dying away and slowing down |
col | with |
dal segno | from the sign |
divisi | divided |
dolce | sweetly |
dolente | mournfully |
affrettando | hurried |
expressivo | expressively |
secco | dry |
giocoso | happily |
gioioso | joyfully |
lento | slow |
mosso | movement |
ossia | or |
piacevole | agreeable |
piacere | @own pleasure |
ravvivando | quickening |
sul tasto | @ fingerboard |
langsam | slow |
simile | similar |
cedez | yield |
zuruckhalten | held back |
tasto solo | left hand only |
animoso | spirited |
assez | rather |
bewegt | motion |
pesante | heavy |
ripieno | tutti |
doppio movimento | twice as fast |
stretto | overlapping imitative entrances |
ruhig | peacefully |
ottava bassa | play an octave lower |
ottava alta | play an octave higher |
lebhaft | lively |
smorzando | extinguishing |
quasi | almost |
mit | with |