Terms and Signs (Part 2) ABRSM Music Theory

agitato 

• agitated
• with force
• light, nimble
• with grief

andantino (G2) 

• broadly
• tenderly
• sightly faster than andate
• dying away

animato 

• dying away
• as before
• animated, lively
• reinforcing

ben 

• bold, strong
• well
• majestic
• sorrowful

con forza 

• playful, joking
• rhytmically
• sweet
• with force

energico 

• energetic
• rather slow
• emphatic, accented
• as before

giocoso (G2) 

• playful, merry
• animated, lively
• very
• with some freedom of time

leggiero 

• with force
• calm
• with a minim beat
• light, nimble

maestoso (G2) 

• tenderly
• majestic
• playful, joking
• agitated

marcato, marc. 

• as before
• sweet
• emphatic, accented
• broadly