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- facile: easily, without fuss
- fall: jazz term describing a note
of definite pitch sliding downwards to another note of definite pitch.
- falsetto: vocal
register above the normal voice
- fermata: finished, closed; i.e., a
rest or note is to be held for a duration that is at the discretion of the
performer or conductor (sometimes called bird's
eye); a fermata at the end of a first or intermediate movement or
section is usually moderately prolonged, but the final fermata of a symphony
may be prolonged for twice its printed length or more for dramatic effect.
- feroce: ferociously
- feurig (Ger):
fiery
- festivamente: cheerfully,
celebratory
- fieramente: proudly
- fill (English):
a jazz or rock term which instructs performers to improvise a scalar passage
or riff to
"fill in" the brief time between lyrical
phrases, the lines of melody, or
between two sections
- fine: the end, often in phrases
like al fine (to
the end)
- flat: a symbol (♭)
that lowers the pitch of a note by a semitone. The term may also be used as
an adjective to describe a situation where a singer or musician is
performing a note in which the intonation is an eighth or a quarter of a
semitone too low.
- flebile: mournfully
- focoso or fuocoso:
fiery; i.e., passionately
- forte or f (usually):
strong; i.e., to be played or sung loudly
- fortepiano or fp (usually):
strong-gentle; i.e., 1. loud, then immediately soft (see dynamics),
or 2. an early pianoforte
- fortissimo or ff:
very loud (see note at pianissimo in
this list)
- fortississimo or fff:
as loud as possible
- forza : musical force
- forzando or fz:
see sforzando in
this list
- freddo: cold(ly); hence
depressive, unemotional
- fresco: freshly
- fröhlich: lively, joyfully
- fugue (Fr), fuga (Latin
and Italian): literally "flight"; hence a complex and highly regimented contrapuntal form
in music. A short theme (the subject)
is introduced in one voice (or part) alone, then in others, with imitation
and characteristic development as the piece progresses.
- funebre: funeral; often seen as marcia
funebre (funeral march),
indicating a stately and plodding tempo.
- fuoco: fire; con
fuoco means with fire
- furia: fury
- furioso: furiously
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