French Musical Terms for Sheet Music

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Common French Musical Terms

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Accélérer le mouvement - speed up

Accent - accent

Accent prononcé - strong accent (sf)

Animé - lively

Animez - to play animatedly

Augmentez - expand

Au mouvement - in time

Assez fort - moderately loud (mf)

Assez doux - moderately quiet (mp)

Cédez - hold back

Début - beginning

Décider d'un mouvement - to adopt a tempo

Degree d'intensité - degree of intensity

De plus en plus doux - getting softer

De plus en plus fort - getting louder

Doucement - softly

Douloureux - painfully

Doux - mild; soft

En animant - in an animated manner

En dehors - prominent

En retenant - holding back

En se calmant - calming down

Et - and

Expressif - expressively

Folatre - playfully

Fort - loud

Indication de mouvement - tempo mark

Jouer en mesure - play in time

Jusq'à la fin - until the end

Léger - lightly

Lent - slow

Lenteur - slowness

Lentement - slowly

Lointain - distant

Lourdement - heavily; ponderously

Main Droite (M.D.) - right hand

Main Gauche (M.G.) - left hand

Modéré - moderately

Moins - less

Moins rigoureux - less rigourously

Mouvement - tempo; speed

Murmuré - whispered

Net - clean; clear

Note accentuée - accented note

Note non accentuée - unaccented note

Nuance contrastées - contrasting dynamics

Peu à peu - bit by bit

Plus - more

Rapide - fast

Rester bien en mesure - to play in time

Retenu - held back; carefully

Sans rigueur - without rigidity; smoothly

Sec - dry; crisp; short

Souple - soft

Triste - sad; sorrowful

Un peu - a little

Un peu céd - a little held back

Vif - lively

Vite - quick; fast

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