Question 1

Accelerando

Accepted Answer

Accelerating, growing faster.

Question 2

Accent

Accepted Answer

A stress, or added emphasis given to a note.

Question 3

Accidental

Accepted Answer

Any chromatic sign nof found in the key signature, occurring in the course of a piece.

Question 4

Adagio

Accepted Answer

Slow, leisurely.

Question 5

Ad libitum

Accepted Answer

A direction signifying that performers may employ the tempo of expression that suits them.

Question 6

Aeolian mode

Accepted Answer

A mode corresponding to the progression from A to A on the white keys of the piano; the order of intervals is: tone, semitone, tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone.

Question 7

Affettuoso

Accepted Answer

With passion, emotion, feeling; very expressively; tenderly.

Question 8

Agitato

Accepted Answer

Agitated.

Question 9

Aisis

Accepted Answer

A double sharp.

Question 10

Al fine

Accepted Answer

To finish.

Question 11

Alla breve

Accepted Answer

A meter of 2/2; two minims per bar.

Question 12

Allargando

Accepted Answer

Growing slower.

Question 13

Allegretto

Accepted Answer

Quite lively; moderately fast (faster than andante, slower than allegro).

Question 14

Allegro

Accepted Answer

Lively, swift.

Question 15

Al segno

Accepted Answer

To the sign.

Question 16

Anacrusis

Accepted Answer

Commencement of a piece or phrase on a weak beat, weak part of the bar or incomplete bar.

Question 17

Andante

Accepted Answer

Going, moving, with movement; a tempo mark indicating a moderately slow, easily flowing movement between adagio and allegretto.

Question 18

Andantino

Accepted Answer

A little slower than andante.

Question 19

Animato

Accepted Answer

Animated, with spirit, vivaciously.

Question 20

Antecedent

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Any theme or motive propsed for imitation, or imitated further on. Also, the theme or subject of a canon or fugue, as proposed by the first part.

Question 21

Arabesque

Accepted Answer

A type of fanciful piano piece.

Question 22

Arpeggio

Accepted Answer

A broken chord; each note of a chord played in succession.

Question 23

Articulation

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The manner in which notes are joined one to another; or, on the piano, the way in which a note is depressed and released.

Question 24

Assai

Accepted Answer

Very.

Question 25

A tempo

Accepted Answer

In time; at the preceding rate of speed.

Question 26

Attacca

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Attack, or begin what follows without pausing.

Question 27

Bagatelle

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A trifle; usually, a short, fairly easy piece.

Question 28

Ballade

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A ballad-like art song, or an instrumental solo piece.

Question 29

Bar

Accepted Answer

The metrical unit in a composition, comprising one set of a time signature.

Question 30

Barline

Accepted Answer

A vertical line dividing bars on the staff.

Question 31

Berceuse

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A cradle song; lullaby.

Question 32

Bravura

Accepted Answer

Boldess, spirit, dash, brilliance.

Question 33

Breve

Accepted Answer

Short.

Question 34

Brillante

Accepted Answer

Brilliant, showy, sparkling.

Question 35

Cadence

Accepted Answer

The close or ending of a phrase, section, movement or piece.

Question 36

Calando

Accepted Answer

Decreasing; growing softer and slower.

Question 37

Cantabile

Accepted Answer

Singable, song-like; in a singing or vocal style.

Question 38

Capo

Accepted Answer

Head, beginning.

Question 39

Capriccio

Accepted Answer

An instrumental piece free in form.

Question 40

Capriccioso

Accepted Answer

In a cparicious, fanciful, fantastic style.

Question 41

Cédez

Accepted Answer

Go slower.

Question 42

Celere

Accepted Answer

Rapid, swift.

Question 43

Chromatic

Accepted Answer

Outside the scale, relating to tones foreign to a given key; opposed to diatonic.

Question 44

Coda

Accepted Answer

Tail, ending.

Question 45

Codetta

Accepted Answer

A short coda.

Question 46

Con

Accepted Answer

With.

Question 47

Consequent

Accepted Answer

The part imitating the antecedent or leader; in a canon, the follower.

Question 48

Contrary motion

Accepted Answer

In opposite direction; parts progress in contrary motion when one moves up while the other moves down or, in piano music, when hands move either inwards or outwards together.

Question 49

Crescendo

Accepted Answer

Swelling, increasing on loudness; gradually getting louder.

Question 50

Crotchet

Accepted Answer

A quarter note.

Question 51

Cut time

Accepted Answer

Alla breve.

Question 52

Dal segno

Accepted Answer

From the sign.

Question 53

Decrescendo

Accepted Answer

Decreasing in loudness; gradually getting softer.

Question 54

Degree

Accepted Answer

One of the eight consecutive tones in a major or minor diatonic scale, counted upward from the keynote.

Question 55

Delicato

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Delicately; in a delicate, refined style.

Question 56

Development

Accepted Answer

The working out, evolution or elaboration of a theme by presenting it in varied melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic treatment.

Question 57

Diatonic

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Of the scale; by, through, with, within, or embracing the tones of the standard major or minor scale.

Question 58

Diluendo

Accepted Answer

Growing softer, dying away.

Question 59

Diminuendo

Accepted Answer

Diminishing in loudness.

Question 60

Distinamente

Accepted Answer

Distinctly.

Question 61

Dolce

Accepted Answer

Sweet, soft.

Question 62

Dolcissimo

Accepted Answer

Very sweetly, softly.

Question 63

Doloroso

Accepted Answer

In a style expressive of pain or grief.

Question 64

Dominant

Accepted Answer

The fifth tone in the major or minor scale.

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