The Music In Me Comes From Your Soul

Hello one and all. I am a huge music fanatic. I play a numerous amounts of instruments, I sing, compose some of my own, etc.

Well, what I would like is for you to write a poem using any of the following musical terms. Do note, there are quite a few, and you are not limited to just the ones I have listed! Obviously I will know which words you have used from the list, but any that are not on the list, please place those in your author comments with a meaning.

Your poem does NOT have to be about music, as long as you use music terms within your poem!


Minimum number of musical words needed: 10

The (painfully long) List:

Accelerando - Increase of speed in music

Accent - Stress of one tone over others, making it stand out; often it is the first beat of a measure

Accompaniment - Music that goes along with a more important part; often harmony or rhythmic patterns accompanying a melody.

Adagio - slow, leisurely

Allegretto - Moderately fast, lively. Faster than Andante, slower than allegro

Allegro - Lively, brisk, rapid

Andante - Moderately slow, a walking speed

Baroque - Relating to the period from about 1600-1750, characterized by grandeur and heavy elaboration of design in music.

Binary form - Two-part form; the structure of a musical composition consisting of two main sections.

Cadence - Closing of a phrase or section of music

Cantata - A short lyric form dealing with either secular or sacred subjects

Chord - Three or more tones combined and sounded simultaneously

Classical - Referring to that period from approximately 1750-1800, characterized musically by objectivity of the composer, emotional restraint, and simple harmonies.

Consonance - A simultaneous sounding of tones that produces a feeling of rest, i.e., a feeling that there is no need for further resolution.

Crescendo - Gradually growing louder

Da Capo - From the beginning. A direction to repeat the entire compositon from the beginning to the place where the word "fine" appears or to the end.

Diminuendo - Gradually growing softer

Dissonance - A simultaneous sounding of tones that produces a feeling of tension or unrest and a feeling that further resolution is needed.

Dolce - Sweetly, softly

Dynamics - Varying intensities of sound throughout a given musical composition. (Piano, Mezzo Piano, Forte, etc.)

Espressione - Expressively

Fermata - A pause, stop, or interruption as that before the cadenza of a concerto.

Fine - The end of a musical piece

Forte - Loud, strong

Fortissimo - Very loud

Grave - Heavy, slow, ponderous in movement

Gusto - In good taste, tasteful

Harmony - The sound resulting from the simultaneous sounding of two or more tones consonant with each other

Interval - The distance between two tones

Istesso tempo - The same tempo. (The tempo remains as before, after a change was made)

Legato - Smooth, flowing

Largo - Large, broad, slow and stately

Legato - Smooth and connected

Lento - Slow

Melody - An arrangement of single tones in a meaningful sequence

Maestoso - Majestic, dignified

Meno - Less

Mezzo forte - Moderately loud

Mezzo piano - Moderately soft

Molto, molta - Much

Obbligato - Required, indispensable

Ostinato - A repeated melodic or rhythmic fragment

Piano - Soft, softly

Pianissimo - Very soft

Presto - Fast, rapid

Phrase - A small section of a composition comprising a musical thought. Comparable to a sentence in language.

Polyrhythms - Music in which two or more keys are used simultaneously in a given composition

Ritardando - Gradually growing slower

Retrograde - A form of contrapuntal imitation in which the melody is played backwards.

Romantic - Relating to the nineteenth-century musical period characterized by subjectivity on the part of the composer, emotionalism in music, longer musical forms, and richer harmonies.

Root - The tone of the scale upon which a chord is built

Rubato - From the Italian "robbed". Used to indicate a modification of the strict rhythmical flow.

Scale - A graduated series of tones arranged in a specified order

Scherzo - Joke, jest. A sprightly movement, light and humorous in nature

Sforzando - Explosively

Sostenuto - Sustained

Spirito - Spiritedly

Staccato - Separate. Sounded in a short, detached manner

Syncopation - The rhythmic result produced when a regularly accented beat is displaced onto an unaccented beat.

Tempo - The rate of speed at which a musical compostion is performed

Theme - A short musical passage that states an idea. It often provides the basis for variations, development, etc.

Timbre - The quality of a musical tone that distinguishes voices and instruments.

Tone –
1. A musical sound
2. The quality of a musical sound

Tutto, Tutta - All, whole

Vivace - Spirited, bright, rapid, equalling or exceeding allegro