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- tacet: silent; do not play
- tempo: time; i.e., the overall
speed of a piece of music
- tempo di marcia: march tempo
- tempo di sturb de neighbors[7] seen
in Fats Waller's arrangement of Stardust
- tempo di valse: waltz tempo
- tempo giusto: in strict time
- tempo primo, tempo
uno, or tempo I (sometimes
also written as tempo I° or tempo1ero):
resume the original speed
- tempo rubato, means "robbed time";
an expressive way of performing a rhythm; seerubato
- teneramente: tenderly
- tenerezza: tenderness
- tenor: the second lowest of the
standard four voice ranges (bass, tenor, alto, soprano)
- tenuto: held; i.e., touch on a
note slightly longer than usual, but without generally altering the note's
value
- ternary: having three parts. In
particular, referring to a three-part musical form with the parts
represented by letters: ABA
- tessitura: the 'best' or most
comfortable pitch range, generally used to identify the most prominent /
common vocal range within a piece of music
- Tierce de Picardie: see Picardy
third
- timbre: the quality of a musical
tone that distinguishes voices and instruments
- time: in a jazz or rock score,
after a rubato or rallentendo section, the term "time" indicates that
performers should return to tempo (this is equivalent to the term "a tempo")
- tranquillo: calmly, peacefully
- tremolo: shaking; i.e., a rapid
repetition of the same note, or an alternation between two or more notes
(often an octave on the piano). String players perform tremolo with the bow
by rapidly moving the bow while the arm is tense. It can also be intended
(inaccurately) to refer to vibrato,
which is a slight undulation in pitch. It is notated by a strong diagonal
bar across the note stem, or a detached bar for a set of notes (or stemless
notes).
- tre corde or tc (or
sometimes inaccurately tre
corda): three strings; i.e., release the soft pedal of the piano (see una
corda)
- triplet (shown
with a horizontal bracket and a '3'): Three notes in the place of two, used
to subdivide a beat.
- troppo: too much; usually seen as non
troppo, meaning moderately or, when combined with other terms, not too
much, such as allegro [ma] non
troppo (fast but not too
fast)
- tutti: all; all together, usually
used in an orchestral or choral score when the orchestra or all of the
voices come in at the same time, also seen in Baroque-era
music where two instruments share
the same copy of music, after one instrument has broken off to play a more
advanced form: they both play together again at the point marked tutti.
See also:ripieno.
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