Music Terminology:

Adagio Fromaggio:

To play in a slow and cheesy manner.

AnDante: A musical composition that is infernally slow.

Angus Dei:

To play with a divine, beefy tone.

Anti-phonal: Referring to the prohibition of cell phones in the concert hall.


A Patella:

Unaccompanied knee-slapping.

Appologgiatura: A composition, solo or instrument, you regret playing.

Approximatura:

A series of notes played by a performer, not intended by the composer.


Approximento:

A musical entrance that is somewhere in the vicinity of the correct pitch.


Bar Line:

What musicians form after a concert.

Concerto Grossissimo: A really bad performance.


Coral Symphony:

(see Beethoven-Caribbean period).


Cornetti Trombosis Disastrous:

The entanglement of brass instruments that can occur when musicians exit hastily down the stage stairs


Dill Piccolino:

A wind instrument that plays only sour notes.


Fermantra:

A note that is held over and over and over and ...

Fermoota:

A rest of indefinite length and dubious value.


Fog Hornoso:

A sound that is heard when the conductor's intentions are not clear.


Frugalhorn:

A sensible, inexpensive brass instrument.


Gaul Blatter:

A French horn player.


Good Conductor:

A person who can give an electrifying performance, or alternative use, one who obeys the orchestra and/or chorus


Gregorian Champ:

Monk who can hold a note the longest.


Kvetchendo:

Gradually getting annoyingly louder.


Mallade:

A romantic song that's pretty awful.


Molto bolto:

Head straight for the ending.


Opera buffa:

Musical stage production by nudists.


Poochini Musical:

performance accompanied by a dog.


Pre-Classical Conservatism:

School of thought which fostered the idea, "if it ain't baroque, don't fix it."


Spritzicato:

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


Tempo Tantrumo:

When a young band refuses to keep time with the conductor.


Tincanabulation:

The annoying or irritating sounds made by extremely cheap bells.


Vesuvioso:

A gradual buildup to a fiery conclusion.


ZZZfortzando:

Playing REALLY loud in order to wake up the audience.


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