Orchestra TTT J-L

Jota

traditional Spanish dance transmuted into an orchestral composition

Key

scale used and home-note on the chord the piece ends with

Key Signature

presence of sharps or flats, or absence of either, at the beginning of a piece

Lament

standard element of Greek tragedy; complaints of heroines of antiquity

Larghetto

diminutive form of “largo”; direction of tempo meaning slowish

Largo

instruction to performers; broad, wide, large and consequently slow

Legato

smooth; opposite of staccato

Leggero

light

Lengo

wood; instruction to hit the strings with the back of the bow

Lento

slow

Libretto

text of an opera

Lied

songs in the great German tradition of song-writing

L’istesso Tempo

the same speed; return to previous speed

Loure

French dance derived from a bagpipe; slow gigue