Piano Theory History and Terms
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himchristine on March 23, 2011
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58 terms
Italian | English |
|---|---|
 A tempo | return to original tempo |
| accent | play the note louder than the others |
| accelerando | accelerate, gradually faster |
| accidentals | sharps flats |
| adagio | slowly |
| allargando | broadening; gradually slower |
| allegro | fast or quick |
| allegretto | slighty slower than allegro; faster than andante |
| andante | a moderate walking tempo |
| andantino | slightly faster than andante |
| animato | animated |
| appoggiatura | classical period; play first note as half the value of the second note |
| arpeggio | a continuous broken chord |
| atonality | no specific tonality |
| articulation | the manner in which notes are executed (legato, staccato) |
| bitonality | the use of two different keys at the same time |
| canon | repeated; each voice exactly imitates the melody of the first voice; ENTIRE THING |
| cantabile | singing style |
| con brio | with spirit |
| coda | an extended ending |
| codetta | a short coda |
| con | with |
| damper pedal | LED press pedal on the right |
| dolce | sweetly |
| doloroso | sadly |
| enharmonic | two different names for the same pitch |
| espressivo | expressively |
| leggiero | lightly, delicately |
| lento | slowly |
| marcato | stressed, marked |
| meno | less |
| moderato | a moderate or medium tempo |
| molto | much; very |
| opus | a word used to indicate the chronological order in which a composer's music was written |
| ostinato | a repeated pattern |
| pesante | heavily |
| piu | more |
| poco | little |
| polytonality | the use of several different keys at the same time |
| presto | very fast |
| rallentando | gradually slower |
| ritenuto | immediately slower |
| robusto | boldly |
| scherzando | playfully, jokingly |
| sempre | always |
| senza | never |
| sforzando | a sudden sharp acent |
| simile | continue in the same style |
| subito | suddenly; at once |
| syncopation | a momentary contradiction of the meter or pulse; strong/weak beats within a measure |
| tre corda | release una corda (left pedal) |
| repetition | repeat immediately exactly same way |
| sequence | repeated on a diff note |
| imitation | repeated in another voice |
| Baroque Period | 1600-1750; frescobaldi; soler; bach, handel, scarlatti, purcell, telemann |
| Classical Period | 1750-1830; haydn, beethoven, mozart, clementi, kuhlau, czerny |
| Romantic Period | 1830-1900; dvorak, grieg, schumann, chopin, schubert, brahms |
| Contemporary | 1900-present; della-joio, prokofiev, bartok, shostakovich, kabalevsky, copland |
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