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#918003 - 09/01/06 02:02 PM
New Musical Terms
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Registered: 01/10/06
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Loc: dearborn, mi
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NEW MUSICAL TERMS In order to keep you abreast of the ever-developing world of musical terminology, provide herewith are the latest additions to the esteemed Harvard Dictionary of Music:
ALLREGRETTO When you're 16 measures into the piece and realize you took too fast a tempo . ANGUS DEI To play with a divinely beefy tone . APATELLA Accompanied by knee-slapping . APPOLOGGIATURA A composition that you regret playing . APPROXIMATURA A series of notes not intended by the composer, yet played with an "I meant to do that" attitude . APPROXIMENTO A musical entrance that is somewhere in the vicinity of the correct pitch . CACOPHANY A composition incorporating many people with chest colds. CORAL SYMPHONY A large, multi-movement work from Beethoven's Caribbean Period . DILL PICCOLINI An exceedingly small wind instrument that plays only sour notes . FERMANTRA A note held over and over and over and over and . . . FERMOOTA A note of dubious value held for indefinite length . FIDDLER CRABS Grumpy string players . FLUTE FLIES Those tiny mosquitos that bother musicians on outdoor gigs . FRUGALHORN A sensible and inexpensive brass instrument . GAUL BLATTER A French horn player . GREGORIAN CHAMP The title bestowed upon the monk who can hold a note the longest . GROUND HOG Someone who takes control of the repeated bass line and won't let anyone else play it . PLACEBO DOMINGO A faux tenor SCHMALZANDO A sudden burst of music from the Guy Lombardo band . THE RIGHT OF STRINGS Manifesto of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Violists . SPRITZICATO An indication to string instruments to produce a bright and bubbly sound . TEMPO TANTRUM What an elementary school orchestra is having when it's not following the conductor . TROUBLE CLEF Any clef one can't read: e.g., alto clef for pianists . VESUVIOSO An indication to build up to a fiery conclusion . VIBRATTO Child prodigy son of the concertmaster
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#918004 - 09/02/06 01:51 AM
Re: New Musical Terms
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Registered: 05/27/06
Posts: 90
Loc: midlands uk
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As I have just woke up it took me to CORAL SYMPHONY to realise what I was reading then tea shot out my nose. That is very funny but yet so accurate half the time.
Thanks for making my morning
tristian
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#918005 - 09/02/06 02:31 AM
Re: New Musical Terms
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