MUSC 308 Vocab Test #3

Cantabile

In a singing style, lyrical, melodious, flowing

Ictus

Where the beat is along the conducting plane

Conducting Plane

Level of the ictuses when conducting

Saggital

Motions that travel forward and backward

Vertical

Motions that travel up and down

Horizontal

Motion that moves from side to side

Con sordino

With mute

Tutti

All players

Soli

More than one player in unison

Niente

Nothing

Grave

Solemn, serious, slow