Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:30:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Karen Roden <karenroden@...>
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Irreverent Musical Terms not Found in Groves Dictionary of Music
To: rustyroden@...

Thought you would enjoy this.  I would have forwarded this to chorale, but I've never been sucessful with yahoo groups. KBR

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Subject: Fw: Irreverent Musical Terms not Found in Groves Dictionary of Music
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:03:25 -0700

 

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Subject: Irreverent Musical Terms not Found in Groves Dictionary of Music

 

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        Uncommon Musical Terms not  found

            in Groves Dictionary of Music

 

Adagio formŕggio: to play in a slow and cheesy manner.

 

A la regretto: tempo assigned to a performance by the conductor AFTER it is panned by local music critics.

 

Al dente con tableau: in opera, chewy scenery...

 

Allegro con Brillo: the fastest way to wash pots and pans.

 

AnDante: a musical composition that is Infernally slow.

 

Angus Dei: a divine, beefy tone.

 

Antiphonal: referring to the prohibition of cell phones in the concert hall.

 

A patella: unaccompanied knee-slapping.

 

Appologiatura: a series of notes played by a performer and not intended by the composer, especially when disguised with an air of "I meant  to do that."

 

Approximento: a musical entrance that is somewhat close to the correct pitch...

 

Bar line: what musicians form after a concert...

 

Basso continuo: the act of game-fishing after the legal season has ended.

 

Basso profundo: an opera about deep sea fishing.

 

Cacophany: composition incorporating many people with chest colds.

 

Concerto grosso: a really BAD performance.

 

Coral Symphony: (see: Beethoven- - Caribbean period).

 

D.C. al capone: you betta go back to the beginning, capisce?

 

Dill piccolo: a wind instrument that plays only sour notes.

 

Diminuendo: the process of quieting a rumor in the orchestra pit.

 

Eardrum: a teeny, tiny tympani.

 

Fermantra: a note that is held over and over and over and...

 

Fiddler crabs: grumpy string players.

 

Flute flies: gnat-like bugs that bother musicians playing out-of-doors.

 

Fog horn: a brass instrument that plays when the conductor's intentions are not clear.

 

Frugalhorn: a sensible, inexpensive brass instrument.

 

Gaul blatter: a French horn player.

 

Grace note: the IOU that you deposit in the church collection plate when you're out of cash.

 

Ground hog: someone who takes control of the repeated bass line and won't let others play it.

 

Kvetchendo: gradually getting ANNOYINGLY louder....

 

Opera buffa: musical stage production at a nudists' camp.

 

Pastorale: beverage to drink in the country when listening to Beethoven with a member of the clergy.

 

Pipe smoker: an extremely virtuosic organist.

 

Pizzacato: the act of removing anchovies from an Italian dish with short, quick motions, then tossing them to a nearby, awaiting feline...

 

Placebo Domingo: faux tenor...

 

Rights of Strings: manifesto of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Bowed Instruments.

 

Rubato: cross between a rhubarb and a tomato.

 

Schmaltzando: a sudden burst of music from the Guy Lombardo band...

 

Spritzicato: plucking of a stringed instrument to produce a bright bubbly sound, usually accompanied by sparkling water with lemon (wine optional)...

 

Tempo tantrum: what a young orchestra is having when it's not keeping time with the conductor.

 

Toiletto (and Toil-echo): the effect on the human voice of reverberation in small rooms with ceramic tiles.

 

Trouble clef: any clef one can't read, e.g., the alto clef for pianists.

 

Woodwind: a noise made in the game of golf, by a club missing the ball on a tee shot.