Music terms

Adagio Lirico - Slow and Lyrical

Subito Piano - Play suddenly quiet

Con Sordino - With Mute

Programmatic Music - The Type of composition called when depicting and storyline

Sostenuto ma non troppo - Sustained but not too much so

Ritardando - Abrupt of a slowdown (like slamming on the brakes)

Rallentando - Slowly slowing down (gently touching the breaks and slowing into a stop)

Molto Rit. - Much/Major slowdown

Arco - With Bow

Pizz - Plucking

Solo - 1 player

Soli - Entire Section

Con sordino - With the mute

A tempo - Return to original tempo

Allegro Con Brio - Fast and lively

Hemiola - Triplets that are played on the top of eighth notes.

An Orchestra that breathes together… - Plays together

Tremelo - Rapid repetition of a note that cannot be counted

Sforzando/SFZ - To play a note with sudden, strong emphasis

+above of a note - Left hand pizz

Crescendo Poco poco - Get louder little by little

Perfect fifths and octaves are easy to tune because they are always perfectly in tune by nature - No

Unisons, Perfect 4th, 5ths, and Octaves are very hard to tune because the frequencies have a perfect relationship to one another. - True

Unison has to be exactly the same, a P4 is a 4/3 relationship, P5 is a 3/2 relationship, and the Octave is a 2/1 relationship. - True