[Dixielandjazz] Fw: Latest additions to the esteemed Harvard Dictionary of Music:

[RICK KNITTEL]

Rick Knittel - forwarded from Bruce McNichols

Latest additions to the esteemed Harvard Dictionary of Music: 
 
ALLREGRETTO: When you're 16 measures into the piece and realize you took
too fast a tempo 
 
ANGUS DEI: To play with a divinely beefy tone 
 
A PATELLA:  Accompanied by knee-slapping 
 
APPOLOGGIATURA:  A composition that you regret playing 
 
APPROXIMATURA: A series of notes not intended by the composer, yet played
with an "I meant to do that" attitude 
 
APPROXIMENTO:  A musical entrance that is somewhere in the vicinity of
the correct pitch 
 
CACOUGHANY: A composition incorporating many people with chest colds 
 
CORAL SYMPHONY: A large, multi-movement work from Beethoven's Caribbean
Period 
 
DILL PICCOLINI: An exceedingly small wind instrument that plays only sour
notes 
 
FERMANTRA: A note held over and over and over and over and . . . 
 
FERMOOTA: A note of dubious value held for indefinite length 
 
FIDDLER CRABS:  Grumpy string players 
 
FLUTE FLIES:  Those tiny mosquitos that bother musicians on outdoor gigs 
 
FRUGALHORN: A sensible and inexpensive brass instrument 
 
GAUL BLATTER: A French horn player 
 
GREGORIAN CHAMP: The title bestowed upon the monk who can hold a note the
longest 
 
GROUND HOG: Someone who takes control of the repeated bass line and won't
let anyone else play it 
 
PLACEBO DOMINGO: A faux tenor 
 
SCHMALZANDO: A sudden burst of music from the Guy Lombardo band 
 
THE RIGHT OF STRINGS: Manifesto of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Violists 
 
SPRITZICATO: An indication to string instruments to produce a bright and
bubbly sound 
 
TEMPO TANTRUM: What an elementary school orchestra is having when it's
not following the conductor (also common in municipal bands and community
orchestras) 
 
TROUBLE CLEF: Any clef one can't read: e.g., alto clef for pianists 
 
VESUVIOSO:  An indication to build up to a fiery conclusion 
 
VIBRATTO: Child prodigy son of the concertmaster 
 
AN-DANTE: A tempo that's infernally slow 
 
ANTIPHONAL: Referring to the prohibition of cell phones in the concert
hall 
 
BAR LINE: What musicians form after the concert 
 
BASSO CONTINUO: When musicians are still fishing long after the legal
season has ended 
 
BEN SOSTENUTO: First cousin of the second trombonist 
 
CADENZA: Something that happens when you forget what the composer wrote
 
CANTABILE: To achieve a complaining sound, as if you have a sour stomach 
 
COL LEGNO: An indication to cellists to hold on tight with their lower
extremities 
 
CON SORDINO: An indication to string players to bow in a slashing, rapier
motion 
 
ESPRESSIVO: Used to indicate permission to take a coffee break 
 
L'ISTESSO TEMPO: An indication to play listlessly; e.g., as if you don't
care 
 
MAESTRO: A person who, standing in front of the orchestra and/or chorus,
is able to follow them precisely 
 
OPERA BUFFA: A musical stage production performed by nudists 
 
PASTORALE: The beverage to drink in the country when listening to
Beethoven with a member of the clergy 
 
PESANTE: An effect distinctly non-upper-class 
 
PIZZICATO: Too much coffee -- time to take a break 
 
RUBATO: A cross between a rhubarb and a tomato 
 
STRINGENDO: An unpleasant effect produced by the violin section when it
doesn't use vibrato 
 
VIBRATO: A device to assist female performers who have trouble when the
music is marked "con espressivo"