Italian Terms for Grade 3,4,5

1. adagietto - rather slow, but faster than adagio
2. ad libitum - at choice, meaning that a passage may be played freely
3. agitato - agitated
4. alla breve - with a minim beat
5. amore - love
6. anima - soul, spirit
7. animato - animated, lively
8. ben - well
9. brio - vigour
10. comodo - convenient
11. deciso - with determination
12. delicato - delicate
13. energico - energetic
14. forza - force
15. largamente - broadly
16. leggiero - light
17. marcato, marc - emphatic, accented
18. marziale - in a military style
19. mesto - sad
20. pesante - heavy
21. risoluto - bold
22. ritmico - rhythmically
23. rubato - with some freedom of time
24. scherzando - playful, joking
25. semplice - simple,plain
26. sempre - always
27. stringendo - gradually getting faster
28. subito - suddenly
29. tanto - so much
30. tranquillo - calm
31. triste, tristamente - sad, sorrowful
32. volta - time
33. affetuoso - tenderly
34. affrentando - hurrying
35. amabile - amiable, pleasant
36. appasionato - with passion
37. calando - getting softer, dying away
38. cantando - singing
39. come - as, similar to
40. facile - easy
41. fuoco - fire
42. giusto - proper, exact
43. l'istesso - the same
44. morendo - dying away
45. niente - nothing
46. nobilmente - nobly
47. perdendosi - dying away
48. quasi - as if, resembling
49. sonoro - resonant, with rich tone
50. sopra - above
51. sotto - below
52. veloce - swift
53. voce - voice
54. attacca - go onto the next section of music
55. dolente - sad, mournful
56. dolore - grief
57. doppio movimento - as twice fast
58. estinto - lifeless, as soft as possible
59. incalzando - getting quicker
60. lacrimoso - sad
61. loco - at the same pitch
62. lunga - long
63. lusingando - coaxing, in a sweet and persuasive style
64. misuria - measure
65. alla misuria - in strict time
66. senza misuria - in free time
67. ossia - or, alternatively
68. piacevole - pleasant
69. piangevole - plaintive, in the style of a lament
70. pochettino, poch. - rather little
71. rinforzando, rfz. - reinforcing
72. segue - go straight on
73. smorzando - dying away
74. teneramente, tenerezza - tenderly, tenderness
75. tosto - swift, rapid
76. volante - flying, fast