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Title: Link for music terminology ?
Post by: quasimodo on January 18, 2005, 12:29:55 PM
there's a lot of expressions for which I look for an accurate definition. Does anyone know a website where I could find ?

By the way what does "attacca" mean in a score?

I'm also interested for any links about theory in general.
Title: Re: Link for music terminology ?
Post by: jlh on January 18, 2005, 12:43:24 PM
Try: https://www.8notes.com/glossary/

By no means complete, but there are a lot of frequently used terms there.
Title: Re: Link for music terminology ?
Post by: bernhard on January 18, 2005, 01:07:37 PM
By the way what does "attacca" mean in a score?



It means that you move straight on to the next section of the music without pausing. It is usually used between movements of a sonata. For instance at the end of the first movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight. It means that you move on to the second movement without batting an eyelid.

The word comes from Italian and it means variously: to attach, to tie (the relevant meanings here), to begin, to attack (not so relevant)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.
Title: Re: Link for music terminology ?
Post by: quasimodo on January 18, 2005, 01:28:50 PM
oh thank you, I was wondering if it had to do with the attack of notes, but absolutely not then ! :P
Title: Re: Link for music terminology ?
Post by: bernhard on January 18, 2005, 01:53:36 PM
oh thank you, I was wondering if it had to do with the attack of notes, but absolutely not then ! :P

You are eating too much red meat!  ;D
Title: Re: Link for music terminology ?
Post by: SteinwayTony on January 18, 2005, 11:32:15 PM
The greatest example of attacca in use is Rach 3, from the second to the third movement.  Unbelieveable. 
Title: Re: Link for music terminology ?
Post by: SteinwayTony on January 18, 2005, 11:35:01 PM
there's a lot of expressions for which I look for an accurate definition. Does anyone know a website where I could find ?

By the way what does "attacca" mean in a score?

I'm also interested for any links about theory in general.

You ought to invest in a music dictionary.  It will serve you well.  This may have been overkill, but I purchased German and Italian dictionaries too.  Pieces by Busoni and Beethoven (in the later opus numbers) often explain aspects of their works that standard music terminology cannot; unfortunately many editions did not translate them into English.
Title: Re: Link for music terminology ?
Post by: quasimodo on January 19, 2005, 08:35:25 AM


You ought to invest in a music dictionary.  It will serve you well.  This may have been overkill, but I purchased German and Italian dictionaries too.  Pieces by Busoni and Beethoven (in the later opus numbers) often explain aspects of their works that standard music terminology cannot; unfortunately many editions did not translate them into English.

Well, I certainly will some day but my current needs are not that big  ;D.