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| Accelerando | | Accelerating |
| Adagietto | | Fairly Slowly |
| Agitato | | With Agitation |
Excitedly
| Al Fine | | To the End |
| Allargando | | Broadening |
| Allegretto Con Grazia | | A Moving Tempo |
With a graceful flowing style
| Allegretto | | Fairly Lively |
| Andante | | At a Walking Pace |
| Andante Maestoso | | Rather Slow & Moving Tempo |
Majestic feeling
| Appassionato | | With Intensity |
And depth of feeling
| Arpeggio | | A Broken Chord |
| Cantabile | | In a Singing Style |
| A Cappella | | Unaccompanied |
| Coda | | Final Part of a Movement |
| Con Brio | | With Spirit |
| Con Effetto | | With Effect |
| Con Moto | | With Motion |
| Con Slancio | | With Enthusiasm |
| Con Sordino | | With the Mute |
| Da Capo | | From the Beginning |
| Dolente | | Sorrowfully |
| Energico | | With Expression |
| Eroico | | Heroically |
| Espirando | | Gasping, Dying Away |
| Espressivo | | Expressively |
| Fortissimo | | Very Loudly |
| Grave | | Very Slow and Solemn |
| Larghetto | | Fairly Slowly |
| Largo | | Very Slowly |
| Martellato | | Hammered out |
| Mezzo Forte | | Moderately Loud |
| Mezzo Piano | | Moderately Softly |
| Moderato | | Moderately |
| Non Troppo | | Not Too Much |
| Obbligato | | Not to Be Omitted |
| Passionato | | Passionately |
| Pianissimo | | Very Softly |
| Poco a Poco | | Little by Little |
| Presto | | Very Quickly |
| Quasi | | In the Manner of |
| Ritardando | | Progressively Slower |
Ritard. or rit.
| Ritenuto | | To Hold Back |
| Rubato | | Free from Strict Tempo |
Literally means "Robbed', a lingering on some notes and hurrying of others
| Scherzando | | Playfully |
| Sotto Voce | | In an Undertone |
| Stretto | | A Faster Tempo at the Climactic Concluding Section of a Piece |
Generally in Italian opera."The term is sometimes used, interchangeably with ‘stretta’, to indicate a faster tempo at the climactic concluding section of a piece; such sections are often headed ‘stretto’ or ‘stretta’.
| Stringendo | | To Increase Intensity |
By increasing tempo
| A Tempo | | In the Original Tempo |
| Tutti | | All Together |
| Vivacissimo | | Very Lively |
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