Pronouncing Dictionary of Musical Terms

How to say it as well as what it means: every Italian, German and French musical term of 1896, respelled phonetically for the student.

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Pezzo (It.) (pet'-so)

A piece; phrase.

Beethoven uses the following sentence as a direction in one of his pianoforte sonatas : "Questo pezzo si deve trattare con piu gran delicatezza," - Every phrase must be treated with the greatest delicacy.

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