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About: http://thelittersitter.com/wordless-wednesday-michi/ The title Col Canto can be translated as “with the melody,” which can mean playing along with the melody and using the melody as an agent of activity. In Col Canto, there is a melody that flows through the entire piece.

Forte Forte (Italian: 'strong'). A dynamic instruction meaning the music should be played loudly. The instruction appears as either: 'f' loud; 'ff' fortissimo, meaning very loud; or 'fff' very loud.

Accelerando (accel.) Quickening; a gradual speeding up of the tempo.

Definition: The Italian musical term scherzando is: an instruction to perform “playfully”; to play in a joking, light-hearted, or happy manner.

Examples of the Canto Other examples of cantos in poetry include The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, The Lusiads by Luíz Vaz de Camões, Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso, and an unfinished epic by Ezra Pound is known simply as The Cantos.

bel canto, (Italian: “beautiful singing”) style of operatic singing that originated in Italian singing of polyphonic (multipart) music and Italian courtly solo singing during the late 16th century and that was developed in Italian opera in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.

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crescendo When the music gets gradually louder we call it a crescendo, and when we get gradually quieter we call it a diminuendo. These can be shown in the music by the marks cresc.

Tempo Markings: Expression Rubato is quite common in baroque music. Meno mosso and Piu Mosso are tempo markings that mean "slow down" and "speed up." They are closely related to two other tempo markings, accelerando and ritardando which mean "gradually speed up" and "gradually slow down," respectively.

Change of tempo The following words can be used to describe tempo changes: Accelerando - getting faster. Rallentando - slowing down, normally for emphasis. Ritardando - slowing down, holding back. A tempo - return to the original tempo after speeding up or slowing down.

pianissimo pp, standing for pianissimo and meaning "very quiet". ff, standing for fortissimo and meaning "very loud".

Middle movements might be slow and lyrical, or perhaps lighter and more playful in character (called a “scherzo”, which is Italian for “joke”).