• Glossary of Musical Terms

    From sebastian.millies@softwareag.com@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 5 04:44:53 2016
    Found the following on this list: https://www.astro.umd.edu/~avondale/extra/Humor/MusicHumor/Jokes.html

    Much of it is actually early-music related :-)

    **GLOSSARY OF MUSICAL TERMS**

    ACCIDENTALS: Wrong notes
    AUGMENTED FIFTH: A 36-ounce bottle
    BROKEN CONSORT: When somebody in the ensemble has to leave and go to the restroom.
    CADENCE: When everybody hopes you're going to stop - but you don't
    CADENZA: The heroine in Monteverdi's opera "Frottola"
    CANTUS FIRMUS: The part you get when you can only play four notes
    CHANSONS DE GESTE: Dirty songs
    CLAUSULA: Mrs. Santa
    CROTCHET: A tritone with a bent prong or. . .
    CROTCHET: It's like knitting but it's faster
    CUT TIME: When you're going twice as fast as everybody else in the ensemble. DUCTIA: A lot of mallards
    EMBOUCHURE: The way you look when you've been playing the Krummhorn
    ESTAMPIE: What they put on letters in Quebec
    GARGLEFINKLEIN: A tiny recorder played by neums
    HOCKET: The thing that fits into a crochet to produce a rackett
    INTERVAL: How long it takes you to find the right note. There are three kinds: Major Interval: A long time
    Minor Interval: A few bars
    Inverted Interval: When you have to back one bar and try again
    INTONATION: Singing through one's nose. Considered highly desirable in the Middle Ages
    ISORHYTHMIC MOTET: When half of the ensemble got a different xerox than the other half
    MINNESINGER: A boy soprano or Mickey's girlfriend in the opera.
    MUSICA FICTA: When you lose your place and have to bluff till you find it again. Also known as faking
    NEUMS: Renaissance midgets
    NEUMATIC MELISMA: A bronchial disorder caused by hockets
    ORDO: The hero in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"
    PERFORMANCE PRACTISE: Sex education
    ROTA: An early Italian method of teaching music without score or parts
    TROTTO: An early Italian form of Montezuma's Revenge
    LAUDA: The difference between shawms and krummhorns
    SANCTA: Clausula's husband
    LASSO: The 6th and 5th steps of a descending scale
    DI LASSO: Popular with Italian cowboys
    LAI: What monks give up when they take their vows
    VIRELAI: A local woman known for her expertise in the Lai
    CONDUCTUS: The process of getting Vire into the cloister
    MOTET: Where you meet Vire if the cloister is guraded
    ORGANUM: You may not participate in the Lai without one
    PARALELL ORGANUM: Everybody standing in a double line, waiting for Vire
    MINIM: The time you spend with Vire when there is a long line
    BREVE: The time you spend when the line is short
    TEMPUS PERFECTUM: A good time was had by all
    TEMPUS IMPERFECTUM: Vire had to leave early
    LONGA: The time between visits with Vire
    PROLATION: Precautions taken before the Lai
    DRONE: The sound of a single monk during an attack of Crotchet
    RHYTHMIC DRONE: The sound of many monks suffering with Crotchet
    SOLESME: The state of mind after a rough case of Crotchet
    ISORHYTHM: The individual process of relief when Vire is out of town ORGANISTRUM: A job-related hazard for careless medieval percussionists, caused by getting one's tapper caught in the clapper
    HURDY-GURDY: A truss for medieval percussionists who get Organistrum
    QUAVER: Beginning viol class
    RACKETT: Capped reeds class
    RITORNELLO: An opera by Verdi
    SINE PROPRIETATE: Cussing in church
    SUPERTONIC: Schweppes
    TRANSPOSITION: An advanced recorder technique where you change from alto to soprano fingering (or vice-versa) in the middle of a piece
    TROPE: A malevolent Neum
    TUTTI: A lot of sackbuts
    STOPS: Something Bach did not have on his organ
    AGNUS DEI: A famous female church composer
    METRONOME: A dwarf who lives in the city
    ALLEGRO: Leg fertilizer
    RECITATIVE: A disease that Monteverdi had
    ORCHESTRAL SUITES: Naughty women who follow touring orchestras
    FINE: That was great!
    DA CAPO AL FINE: I like your hat!
    OPUS: A Penguin in Kansas
    FERMENTED FIFTH: What the percussion players keep behind the tympani, which resolves to a...
    DISTILLED FIFTH: What the conductor uses backstage...

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