Musical terms are written in Italian, this is to show how clever composers are. The English, of course, ignore them, believing the whole world should speak English only. The Welsh ignore anything that hasn't got Doh Me Soh Ray Doh in it somewhere, the Irish prefer to read through glasses (mainly of Guinness, Smithwicks or Carlsberg) and the only Italian the Scots know is cornetto.
- Accent: An unusual manner of pronunciation, eg: “Calm down, yiz all sung dat real good!”
- Accidentals: Wrong notes.
- Ad Libitum: A premiere.
- Agitato: A conductors state of mind when a Bass hits the wrong/right note in the middle of a piece.
- Agnes Dei: A woman composer famous for her church music.
- Angus Dei: To play with a God like beefy tone
- Altered Chord: A sound that has been spayed.
- Attaca: “Fire at will!”
- Bar Line: A gathering of people, usually among which may be found a number of singers.
- Beat: What Conductors do with their sticks. The down beat is performed on the top of the head, while the up beat is struck under the chin.
- Bravo: Literally, How bold! or What nerve! This is a spontaneous expression of appreciation on the part of the concert goer after a particularly trying performance.
- Breve: The way a sustained note sounds when a tenor runs out of wind.
- Cadence:
- The short nickname of a rock group whose full name is Cadence Clearwater Revival.
- When everybody hopes you’re going to stop, but you don’t.
- (Final Cadence: when they FORCE you to stop.)
- Chord: Usually spelled with an “s” on the end, means a particular type of pants, eg: “He wears chords.”
- Chromatic Scale: An instrument for weighing that indicates half-pounds.
- Clef:
- If someone cannot sing, he may have an affliction of the palate, called a clef.
- Something to jump from if you can’t sing and you have to teach a Sunday school.
- Coloratura Soprano: A singer who has great trouble finding the proper note, but who has a wild time hunting for it.
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