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Musical terms: Group 2 | |
A Cappella | Unaccompanied vocal music |
Accelerando | Gradually faster |
Agitato | Agitated |
Allegretto | Rather lively (less than Allegro) |
Brio | Life, Vigour |
Calando | Reducing tone and speed |
Cantabile | In a singing style |
Capo | The beginning |
Col | With the |
Colla parte | A direction to follow the soloist |
Come | At |
Da | From |
Dolente | Sadly |
Fine | The end |
Forza | Force |
Grandioso | Grandly |
Grave | Very slow |
Grazioso | Gracefully |
Largo | Stately, broad, slow |
Ma | But |
Ma non troppo | But not too much |
Maestoso | Majestically |
Marcato | Marked, accented |
Meno | Less |
Mesto | Sadly |
Pianissimo | Very soft |
Poco | A little |
Poco a poco | Little by little |
Rallentando | Gradually getting slower |
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Musical terms: Group 2 | |
A Cappella | Unaccompanied vocal music |
Accelerando | Gradually faster |
Agitato | Agitated |
Allegretto | Rather lively (less than Allegro) |
Brio | Life, Vigour |
Calando | Reducing tone and speed |
Cantabile | In a singing style |
Capo | The beginning |
Col | With the |
Colla parte | A direction to follow the soloist |
Come | At |
Da | From |
Dolente | Sadly |
Fine | The end |
Forza | Force |
Grandioso | Grandly |
Grave | Very slow |
Grazioso | Gracefully |
Largo | Stately, broad, slow |
Ma | But |
Ma non troppo | But not too much |
Maestoso | Majestically |
Marcato | Marked, accented |
Meno | Less |
Mesto | Sadly |
Pianissimo | Very soft |
Poco | A little |
Poco a poco | Little by little |
Rallentando | Gradually getting slower |
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