Talk:List of Italian musical terms used in English

issimo does not mean very
molto means very. There's a difference between molto staccato, and staccatissimo. -issimo is a standard Italian superlative. Superlative, means most - the top end of the scale. It's the same in English, you have adjective, comparitive, and superlative. E.g. Quick, quicker, quickest.

Forte (Strong), Piu Forte (stronger), Fortissimo (strongest)

So, the literal translations leave a bit to be desired. Whatever you do, don't use Google translate for this, it's notoriously unreliable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.58.211.224 (talk) 07:49, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

Musical terminology
Hmm, it looks like this may have been rendered redundant by the article musical terminology. Would anyone object if I fold in the entries here into musical terminology and make this into a redirect to that article? Opus33 19:31, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm actually working on that now&mdash;I'll merge this page into musical terminology sometime in the near future. --bdesham 18:25, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * OK, take note to link Adagio to Adagio .&mdash;Trevor Caira 17:57, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Am in the process of merging Musical terminology, Italian musical terms and Tempo into Glossary of music performance directions. Musical terminology should be used to encompass more general terms like counterpoint, serialism, sonata, etc. --bleh fu 04:32, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm, this discussion has fallen by the wayside, it seems. More useful might be a grid of terms and abbreviations by columns in various languages. For example, English "W.B" (WHole Bow) on the same row as German "G.B" (Ganz Bogen). Until that happens, I don't see the value of merging the table of Italian terms, with translations, into a long list of others... There seems to be a jinx on saying "I'll do it" here, so I'll only commit to thinking about it. Stay tuned... __Just plain Bill 19:23, 11 February 2007 (UTC)


 * FWIW I vote for the merge. Too easy to unintentionally omit things from this Italian-specific list.  (Lots of common ones missing now; I won't bother to enumerate.)  I envision the best of both approaches: a fully comprehensive list, a la musical terminology, yet in tabular form, like "List of Italian...", with columns "Term", "Literal Meaning", "Meaning", "Language of Origin" and whatever else makes sense.  I intentionally order the columns this way -- giving priority to "Literal Meaning" -- as scanning the literal meaning -- arguably synonymous with "original meaning" -- can obviously give insights that the translation cannot.


 * I do also like Just Plain Bill's idea about showing the equivalent terms for various languages, but doing it all in one unified table, supporting all applicable languages and terms, seems like it could get ugly, fast.


 * In any case, I will not do it. (And I'm not just trying to counter the "jinx"; I really won't!)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.199.78.192 (talk) 16:00, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Presto link
Why does the link to the term "Presto" take me to a page about Penis?


 * Vandalism. It has been corrected. Please sign your posts on talk pages per Sign your posts on talk pages. Thanks! Hyacinth 11:39, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Musical Instuments
You missed a miriad of instruments.

Saxophone, named after Adolph Sax, A woodwind with a brass body, generally bright, not used in Orchestras often

Trombone

French Horn

Sousaphone

Baritone

Clarinet

Flute  (piccolo should be a subsection of flute)

Oboe

Bassoon

guitars

percussion instruments

and several more.

Orchestra should be removed here and put under a new section titled Ensembles which would include Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, concert Band, Big (jazz) Band, Solo, Duet, Trio, Quartet, Quintet, etc., choir.


 * I'm not sure, but this article seems to deal with terms that were originally Italian and have moved to a more cosmopolitan musical language. I don't have firsthand knowledge of the others, but the saxophone (from, as you said, Adolph Sax) would not apply.  --99.224.71.89 (talk) 02:05, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

List
Surely this article should be called List of Italian etc...? 80.47.199.0 12:24, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Why Italian terms are used in music.
I think that some of you are ignoring an important fact about music history. Some of you are using the fact that Italian terms were used in music because "most of the composers of the Renaissance period were Italian." Italian terms were first used in printed sheet music due to the fact that the "father of modern music printing was a man named Ottaviano Petrucci, a printer and publisher who flourished in large measure thanks to a twenty-year monopoly of printed music in Venice during the 16th century" therefore establishing a tradition of Italian terms in music.

--JBrill0808 07:30, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Lentando; mosso
Does lentando belong on this page? See and. Cheers,   A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 00:43, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Done. Also adding "mosso", as in "poco piu mosso"; see -- Jo3sampl (talk) 14:53, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Italian Word for Italian Words in Music?
Isn't there an Italian word for "Italian words in music"? I thought it was something that started with an "s" like "sprezzatura" or something. Or maybe it only refers to the words relating to dynamics? And please don't reply by telling me what "sprezzatura" means (I already looked it up) I'm just saying that I vaguely recall that it sounded something like that. Zyxwv99 (talk) 16:25, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Clarification on where "arco" is shown
Under 'Techniques', we see: Coll'arco	with the bow	Cancels col legno and pizzicato (in a string passage, arco is usually expected and is not written.) I propose: Coll'arco	with the bow	Cancels col legno and pizzicato (in a string passage, arco is usually expected and is not written except at the end of col legno or pizzicato passages.)

Comments? -- Jo3sampl (talk) 02:46, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Jo3sampl (talk) 02:45, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Ciaccona vs Chaconne
In the solo violin J.S.Bach manuscript it is written in italian: "Ciaccona" ([|Ciaccona]) 151.66.134.119 (talk) 23:55, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

I see what you did there.
The definitions table looks like an Italian flag. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.174.141.143 (talk) 12:10, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I noticed this too. Why? It doesn't aid reading at all, in fact I find non-standard, rather dark backgrounds actually make reading physically painful. Hairy Dude (talk) 05:09, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Merge Convenienze into this page
The article at Convenienze seems to be not much more than a dictionary definition (WP:NOTDICTIONARY), and I'm not sure if it's likely to be expanded upon. I think the info is best captured in this list article. Cripesohblimey (talk) 09:08, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 09:51, 7 November 2020 (UTC)