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- mormorando
![[Italian]](https://www.flutetunes.com/img/languages/it.png "Italian")
Murmuring. - bepop Complex jazz style developed in the 1940s.
- Kirkpatrick numbers The numbering system identifying compositions by Domenico Scarlatti.
- Leitmotiv
![[German]](https://www.flutetunes.com/img/languages/de.png "German")
A term adopted by Wagner's disciples to designate the “leading motives” in his operas. - intermezzo Short lyric piece or movement, often for piano. Also, a comic interlude performed between acts of an eighteenth century opera seria.
- non-transposing instrument An instrument which is notated in the same key on paper that it sounds when played.
- sheet music A generic term to mean any piece of paper with the notation of a composition printed on on it.
- grosso Large, great, grand.
- sospirando Sighing.
- gig A term commonly applied to a musical engagement of one night's duration only.
- Ausdrucksvoll Expressive.
- sixth An interval of six diatonic degrees, counting the first and last degree.
- rhapsody A one-movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colors and tonalities.
- one hundred and twenty-eighth note A note having the time duration of one hundred twenty-eighth of the time duration of a whole note.
- 15mb A directive to perform two octaves lower than written.