Musical termAlternativesDefinition / meaningLanguageNotes accelerandoaccel.gradually getting quickerItalian adagioslowItalian allegrettofairly quick (but not as quick as allegro)Italian allegroquick (literally "cheerful")Italian andanteat a medium ("walking") speedItalian ...
* troppo: too much; usually seen as non troppo, meaning moderately or, when combined with other terms, not too much, such as allegro [ma] non troppo (fast but not too fast) * tutti: all; all together, usually used in an orchestral or choral score when the orchestra or all of the ...
Here's my very first term:Teneramente (Italian); Tenderly, softly, delicately.P.S. I would like to ask those of you who would also like to participate to please not add more than 1 word a day or it will be too much all at once and defeat the purpose. Thanks so much.P.P.S. I...
A term meaning “backward” or “the series is sounded in reverse order.” Retrograde reverses the order of the motive’s pitches: what was the first pitch becomes the last, and vice versa. Measure 2 indicates Retrograde. Riff A prominent feature in pop and jazz compositions, a riff is a...
The elements necessary for a more comprehensive theory of its function and meaning became discernible. But philosophers whose views have been summarized thus far were not speaking as philosophers of music. Music interested them in terms extrinsic to itself, in its observable effects; in its ...
1 Semiotic meaning Meaning is defined in multiple ways in the literature, but semiotic meaning and analysis can accommodate them all. The role of the term “meaning” as a symbol in English masks some conceptual differences it has from terms in other languages. Meaning has come to mean many ...
Allegretto - Fast, but not as fast as allegro. Allegro - Allegro (Italian: cheerful, lively) is generally taken as fast, although not as fast as vivace or presto. Allegretto is a diminutive, meaning slightly slower than allegro. These indications of speed or tempo are used as general titles...
(GSP), a recent technique designed to tackle this dimensionality problem40. We parametrize the space of triads as pairs of intervals, building cumulatively from the bass note, meaning that (for example) a major triad is represented as the tuple (4, 3). This space also includes non-integer ...
Meaning: "praise, pause" Description: The name is derived from the term commonly used in the Book of Psalms, which has a many Hebrew scholars in confusion over its meaning. Given its context in the Bible, Selah is likely to mean "to praise" or "pause and reflect upon what has just be...
exceeding even Beethoven’s spell. But others, too, contributed to “themusicof the future.” As Schoenberg was to point out in one of his remarkable essays, even Brahms, who looked upon himself as aconservativein the best sense of the term, was, historically speaking, a true “progressive...