4cantabile
in a singing style
5animato
with animation; with life
6staccato
seperated, detached style
7legato
smooth and connected style
11andante
at a walking pace or moderate tempo
12A Tempo
back to the original tempo
15grave
solemn tempo, very slow
17L'istesso tempo
at the same tempo
19piu mosso
a little more motion
21ritardando
gradually getting slower
22crescendo
gradually getting louder
23decrescendo, diminuendo
gradually getting softer
24forte piano
loud, then immediatly soft
27chromatic scale
a scale proceeding by half steps
28enharmonic
notes that sound the same but are spelled differently
29interval
measures the distance between two notes
30root
tone upon which a chord is built
31accidental
an added flat, sharp, or natural sign not i the key signature
32phrase
a musical sentence
35ostinato
a short repeated, rhythmic figure
36syncopation
a deliberate upsetting of steady pulse of meter
37modulation
a tonal shift or change of key during a piece of movement
38Da Capo
return to the beginning
39Dal Segno
back to the sign
40Coda
a special ending added to the end of a compostion
41temperature affects an instruments intonation by...
...playing flat in cold weather and sharp in warm weather