Italian Performance Directions

Allargando

• Faster than Allegro

• Slowing Down

• Broadening

• Slow then Immediately Fast

Andantino

• Broadening

• It's what's for dinner

• Slightly faster than Andante

• You meant to spell Al Dente!

Assai

• A city in Italy

• Not too much

• This is not a real word

• Very

This Italian performance term means "with"

• con/col

• and/or

• etc./i.e.

• simile

This Italian Performance term means "sweetly"

• Dulce

• Sucere

• Dolce

Espressivo

• Nicely

• Expressively

• Dramatically

• Carefully

What does the dynamic 'fp' or fortepiano tell us to do?

• You can pick between forte or piano

• It means kind of loud, kind of soft

• This is another way to write sforzando (sf)

• It means loud then suddenly soft

Giocoso

• Hilariously

• Mockingly

• Playfully, Merrily

• Wildly

What is the Italian Performance term for 'slow and solemn?'

• Largissimo

• Largo

• Grave

• Diminuendo

Grazioso

• Loudly

• Jokingly

• Gracefully