Glossary Of Foreign Terms

Question 1

Adagio e spiccato

Answer 1

Italian for ‘Slowly and played spiccato’

Question 2

Adagio e mesto

Answer 2

Italian for ‘Slowly and sadly’

Question 3

Allegro agitato e appassionato assai

Answer 3

Italian for ‘Quickly, restlessly and very passionately’

Question 4

Animez un peu

Answer 4

French for ‘Liven it up a little’

Question 5

A punta d’arco

Answer 5

Italian for ‘With the point of the bow’

Question 6

Arco

Answer 6

Italian for ‘Play with the bow (a direction following a pizzicato passage)’

Question 7

Avec plus d’abandon

Answer 7

French for ‘Play more freely’

Question 8

Baguettes de bois recouvert en peau

Answer 8

French for ‘Wooden drumsticks covered with leather’

Question 9

Baguette d’eponge

Answer 9

French for ‘Sponge headed drumsticks’

Question 10

Bläs

Answer 10

German for ‘Woodwind’

Question 11

Colla parte

Answer 11

Italian for ‘Follow the soloist’

Question 12

Colla voce

Answer 12

Italian for ‘Follow the voice’

Question 13

Come sopra

Answer 13

Italian for ‘As above/before’

Question 14

Commencer lentement dans un rythme nonchalamment gracieux

Answer 14

French for ‘Start slowly in a graceful carefree rhythm’

Question 15

Con sordini

Answer 15

Italian for ‘With mutes’

Question 16

Crescendo da niente

Answer 16

Italian for ‘Getting louder, from nothing’

Question 17

Délicatement et presque sans nuances

Answer 17

French for ‘Delicately and almost dynamic change’

Question 18

Diminuendo al niente

Answer 18

Italian for ‘Getting gradually quieter, fading to nothing’

Question 19

Double corde

Answer 19

French for ‘Double stopped’

Question 20

En allant se perdant

Answer 20

French for ‘Gradually dying away’

Question 21

mf en augmentant beaucoup

Answer 21

French for ‘Moderately loud and getting increasingly louder’

Question 22

En dehors

Answer 22

French for ‘A direction to make the melody stand out’

Question 23

En serrant un peu

Answer 23

French for ‘Getting a little faster’

Question 24

Estremamente flautando

Answer 24

Italian for ‘Very flute-like’

Question 25

Estremamente sul ponticello

Answer 25

Italian for 'Play extremely near the bridge'

Question 26

Expressif (et lointain)

Answer 26

French for 'Expressive (and distant sounding)'

Question 27

Flttz.

Answer 27

German for 'Flutter tongue'

Question 28

Laissez vibrer

Answer 28

French for 'Allow to resonate, do not damp'

Question 29

Léger et lointain

Answer 29

French for 'Light and distant sounding'

Question 30

Lento assai

Answer 30

Italian for 'Very slowly'

Question 31

Lento molto sostenuto

Answer 31

Italian for 'Slow and very sustained'

Question 32

Lentement

Answer 32

French for 'Slowly'

Question 33

Modérémemt animé

Answer 33

French for 'Moderately lively'

Question 34

Molto forzando e feroce

Answer 34

Italian for 'Fierecely and very strongly accented

Question 35

Muta in

Answer 35

Italian for 'Change e.g. 'muta in piccolo', change to the piccolo'

Question 36

Pavillons en l'air

Answer 36

French for 'Bells in the air'

Question 37

Perdendo

Answer 37

Italian for 'Gradually dying away'

Question 38

Poco rubato

Answer 38

Italian for 'With a little rhythmic flexibility'

Question 39

Poco scherzando

Answer 39

Italian for 'A little playfully'

Question 40

Quasi da lontano

Answer 40

Italian for 'As if from a distance'

Question 41

Retenu

Answer 41

French for 'Held back'

Question 42

Revenez au 1 tempo

Answer 42

French for 'Return to the first tempo'

Question 43

Retenu jusqu'au premier movement

Answer 43

French for 'Held back until [you return] to the original tempo'

Question 44

Sans lenteur

Answer 44

French for 'Without slowing down'

Question 45

Sans presser

Answer 45

French for 'Without hurrying'

Question 46

Sans ralentir

Answer 46

French for 'Without slowing down'

Question 47

Senza sordini

Answer 47

Italian for 'Without mutes'

Question 48

Senza vibrato

Answer 48

Italian for 'Without vibrato'

Question 49

Sotta voce

Answer 49

Italian for 'In an undertone, literally below the voice'

Question 50

Spiccato

Answer 50

Italian for 'A bowing technique in which the bow appears to bounce lightly upon the string'

Question 51

Sul ponticello

Answer 51

Italian for 'On the bridge. Instruction to the string player to take the bow as near as possible to the bridge resulting in a rather metallic mysterious tone'

Question 52

Sul tasto

Answer 52

Italian for 'Instruction to the string player to bow (or occasionally pluck) near or over the fingerboard, resulting in an ethereal tone'

Question 53

Tempo guisto

Answer 53

Italian for 'Strictly in time'

Question 54

Tempo rubato

Answer 54

Italian for 'With flexible rhythm and tempo'

Question 55

Toujours animez

Answer 55

French for 'Always lively'

Question 56

Tout l'orchestre aussi doux que possible

Answer 56

French for 'All of the orchestra [play] as softly as possible'

Question 57

Très rhythmé, mf en augmentant beaucoup

Answer 57

French for 'Very rhythmic and getting a lot louder'

Question 58

Un peu plus vite

Answer 58

French for 'A little quicker'

Question 59

Un peu retenu

Answer 59

French for 'Slowing down a little'