Question 1

Sans

Accepted Answer

Without.

Question 2

Scale

Accepted Answer

Any set of musical notes ordered in pitch by defined intervals.

Question 3

Scherzo

Accepted Answer

A joke, jest.

Question 4

Schnell

Accepted Answer

Fast, quick, rapid.

Question 5

Scintallente

Accepted Answer

Sparkling, brilliant.

Question 6

Scorrendo

Accepted Answer

Fluent, flowing, gliding.

Question 7

Second

Accepted Answer

The interval between two conjunct degrees.

Question 8

Section

Accepted Answer

A short division of a composition.

Question 9

Segno

Accepted Answer

A sign. Al segno, to the sign; dal segno, from the sign.

Question 10

Segue

Accepted Answer

Follows.

Question 11

Seguendo

Accepted Answer

Following.

Question 12

Sehr

Accepted Answer

Very.

Question 13

Semibreve

Accepted Answer

A whole note.

Question 14

Semiquaver

Accepted Answer

A sixteenth note.

Question 15

Semitone

Accepted Answer

A half tone.

Question 16

Semplice

Accepted Answer

In a simple, natural, unaffected style.

Question 17

Sempre

Accepted Answer

Always, continually; throughout.

Question 18

Sensibile

Accepted Answer

Audible; sensitive, as in able to be sensed.

Question 19

Senza

Accepted Answer

Without.

Question 20

Series

Accepted Answer

The ordering of pitch classes or other elements.

Question 21

Seventh chord

Accepted Answer

A chord composed of a root, third, fifth and seventh.

Question 22

Severo

Accepted Answer

Strictly, with rigid observance of tempo and expression marks.

Question 23

Sforzando

Accepted Answer

A direction to perform the tone of chord with special stress, or marked and sudden emphasis; usually written sfz.

Question 24

Sfumato

Accepted Answer

Very lightly, like a vanishing smoke-wreath.

Question 25

Silenzio

Accepted Answer

Silence.

Question 26

Similar motion

Accepted Answer

In the same direction; parts progress in similar motion when both moves up or down simutaneously or, in piano music, when hands move either right or left together.

Question 27

Simile

Accepted Answer

Similarly; a direction to perform the following bars or passages in the same way.

Question 28

Simple

Accepted Answer

Not compound or complex; undeveloped, not varied.

Question 29

Six chord

Accepted Answer

First inversion of a triad.

Question 30

Sixth

Accepted Answer

The interval containing six diatonic degrees.

Question 31

Slentando

Accepted Answer

Gradually decreasing in tempo

Question 32

Slur

Accepted Answer

A curved line under or over two or more notes, signifying that they are to be played legato.

Question 33

Smorzando

Accepted Answer

Dying away.

Question 34

Sognando

Accepted Answer

Dreaming, dreamily.

Question 35

Solenne

Accepted Answer

Solemn, solemnly, with solemnity, in a lofty style.

Question 36

Sombre

Accepted Answer

Dark, veiled, obscure.

Question 37

Sonata

Accepted Answer

An instrumental composition in three or four extended movements contrasted in theme, tempo and mood.

Question 38

Sonoro

Accepted Answer

Sonorously, resoundingly, resonantly.

Question 39

Sordamente

Accepted Answer

With a veiled, muffled tone.

Question 40

Sostenuto

Accepted Answer

Sustained, prolonged.

Question 41

Sotto

Accepted Answer

Below, under.

Question 42

Soutenu

Accepted Answer

Held or sustained.

Question 43

Stabile

Accepted Answer

Steady, firm.

Question 44

Staccato

Accepted Answer

Detached, separated.

Question 45

Staff, or Stave

Accepted Answer

A set of parallel lines and spaces, most commonly 5 lines and 4 spaces, used in notation.

Question 46

Stendando

Accepted Answer

Delaying, dragging.

Question 47

Stesso

Accepted Answer

The same.

Question 48

Stinguendo

Accepted Answer

Dyinf away.

Question 49

Stravagante

Accepted Answer

Extravagant, fantastic.

Question 50

Strepitoso

Accepted Answer

In a noisy, boisterous, impetuous style.

Question 51

Stridente

Accepted Answer

Strident; rough, harsh.

Question 52

Stringendo

Accepted Answer

Hastening, accelerating, usually suddenly and rapidlyn with a crescendo.

Question 53

Study

Accepted Answer

An étude, a teaching piece.

Question 54

Subito

Accepted Answer

Suddenly.

Question 55

Submediant

Accepted Answer

The third scale tone below the tonic; the sixth degree.

Question 56

Subtonic

Accepted Answer

The scale tone below the tonic.

Question 57

Supertonic

Accepted Answer

The second degree of a diatonic scale.

Question 58

Susurrante

Accepted Answer

In a whispering, murmurous tone.

Question 59

Tacet

Accepted Answer

Silent.

Question 60

Tempo

Accepted Answer

Rate of speed.

Question 61

Tempo mark

Accepted Answer

A word or phrase indicating the rate of speed at a which a piece should be performed.

Question 62

Tenero

Accepted Answer

Tenderly; delicatlely, softly.

Question 63

Tenuto

Accepted Answer

Held; means generally that a tone so marked is to be sustained for its full time value.

Question 64

Theme

Accepted Answer

The musical basis or bases upon which composition is built.

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