SPEED
VOLUME
SYMBOLS
RANDOM ITALIAN TERMS
SMARTY PANTS
100

Hold

Fermata

100

Gradually get louder

Crescendo

100

.

Short and detached

Staccato 

100

Suddenly

Subito

100

The distance between two pitches

Interval

200

Gradually get faster

Accelerando

200

Loud

Forte

200

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Raise a pitch by one half step

Sharp

200

Smoothly

Legato

200

Little by little

Poco a poco

300

Gradually get slower

Ritardando

300

Very soft

Pianissimo

300

b

Lower a pitch by one half step

Flat

300

Gradually get louder

Crescendo

300

All singing the same pitch

Unison

400

Return to the original tempo

A tempo

400

Medium loud

Mezzo forte

400

Cancels sharps and flats

Natural

400

Without accompaniment

A cappella

400

Strongly accented

Sforzando

500

Italian abbreviation for "gradually get faster"

accel. 

500

The louds and softs in music are called what?

Dynamics

500

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Emphasis on a particular note

Accent

500

All together

Tutti

500

Very slow

Largo

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