Terms you may never encounter for future reference.
- Adagio Formaggio: To play in a slow and cheesy manner.
- AnDante: A musical composition that is infernally slow.
- Angus Dei: To play with a divine, beefy tone.
- Anti-phonal: Referring to the prohibition of cell phones in the concert hall.
- A Patella: Unaccompanied knee-slapping.
- Appologgiatura: A composition, solo or instrument you regret playing.
- Approximatura: A series of notes played by a performer, not intended by the composer.
- Approximento: A musical entrance that is somewhere in the vicinity of the correct pitch.
- Bar Line: What musicians form after a concert.
- Concerto Grossissimo: A really bad performance.
- Coral Symphony: (see Beethoven-Caribbean period).
- Cornetti Trombosis Disastrous: entanglement of brass instruments that can occur when musicians exit hastily down the stage stairs.
- Dill Piccolino: A wind instrument that plays only sour notes.
- Fermantra: A note that is held over and over and over and...
- Fermoota: A rest of indefinite length and dubious value.
- Fog Hornoso: A sound that is heard when the conductor's intentions are not clear.
- Frugalhorn: A sensible, inexpensive brass instrument.
- Gaul Blatter: A French horn player.
- Good Conductor: A person who can give an electrifying performance.
- Gregorian Champ: Monk who can hold a note the longest.
- Kvetchendo: Gradually getting annoyingly louder.
- Mallade: A romantic song that's pretty awful.
- Molto bolto: Head straight for the ending.
- Opera buffa: Musical stage production by nudists.
- Poochini Musical: performance, accompanied by a dog.
- Pre-Classical Conservatism: School of thought which fostered the idea, "if it ain't baroque, don't fix it."
- Spritzicato: Plucking of a stringed instrument to produce a bright,bubbly sound, usually accompanied by sparkling water with lemon (wine optional).
- Tempo Tantrumo: When a young band refuses to keep time with the conductor.
- Tincanabulation: The annoying or irritating sounds made by extremely cheap bells.
- Vesuvioso: A gradual buildup to a fiery conclusion.."
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