Talk:Italian musical terms used in English

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[edit] Musical terminology

Hmm, it looks like this may have been rendered redundant by the article musical terminology. Would anyone object if I fold in the entries here into musical terminology and make this into a redirect to that article? Opus33 19:31, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I'm actually working on that now—I'll merge this page into musical terminology sometime in the near future. --bdesham 18:25, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
OK, take note to link [[Adagio]] to [[Tempo|Adagio]].—Trevor Caira 17:57, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hmmm, this discussion has fallen by the wayside, it seems. More useful might be a grid of terms and abbreviations by columns in various languages. For example, English "W.B" (WHole Bow) on the same row as German "G.B" (Ganz Bogen). Until that happens, I don't see the value of merging the table of Italian terms, with translations, into a long list of others... There seems to be a jinx on saying "I'll do it" here, so I'll only commit to thinking about it. Stay tuned... __Just plain Bill 19:23, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Presto link

Why does the link to the term "Presto" take me to a page about Penis?

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[edit] Musical Instuments

You missed a miriad of instruments.

Saxophone, named after Adolph Sax, A woodwind with a brass body, generally bright, not used in Orchestras often

Trombone

French Horn

Sousaphone

Baritone

Clarinet

Flute (piccolo should be a subsection of flute)

Oboe

Bassoon

guitars

percussion instruments

and several more.

Orchestra should be removed here and put under a new section titled Ensembles which would include Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, concert Band, Big (jazz) Band, Solo, Duet, Trio, Quartet, Quintet, etc., choir.

I'm not sure, but this article seems to deal with terms that were originally Italian and have moved to a more cosmopolitan musical language. I don't have firsthand knowledge of the others, but the saxophone (from, as you said, Adolph Sax) would not apply. --99.224.71.89 (talk) 02:05, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List

Surely this article should be called List of Italian etc...? 80.47.199.0 12:24, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why Italian terms are used in music.

I think that some of you are ignoring an important fact about music history. Some of you are using the fact that Italian terms were used in music because "most of the composers of the Renaissance period were Italian." Italian terms were first used in printed sheet music due to the fact that the "father of modern music printing was a man named Ottaviano Petrucci, a printer and publisher who flourished in large measure thanks to a twenty-year monopoly of printed music in Venice during the 16th century" therefore establishing a tradition of Italian terms in music.

--JBrill0808 07:30, 19 June 2007 (UTC)