NSJMA · All Star · Music terms
All Star music terms
Extend the Letter vocabulary with expressive, structural, and performance terms.
Key terms
- Agitato — in an agitated manner
- Allargando — broadening and becoming progressively slower
- Andantino — lighter and usually quicker than andante
- Cadenza — an unaccompanied virtuosic solo section
- Common time — 4/4 meter
- Cut time — 2/2 meter
- Da capo — from the beginning
- Diminuendo — gradually decreasing volume
- Etude — a study designed to develop a musical skill
- Grandioso — in a grand or solemn style
- Maestoso — majestically
- Marcato — marked with emphasis
- Rubato — flexible or free time
- Sostenuto — sustained
- Syncopation — accenting a normally weak beat
- Tacet — remain silent