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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Streng (Ger.)

Rigid; severe.

Strepito (It.) (streh'-pee-to), con. With noise; fury.

Strepitosamente (It.) (streh-pee-to-sah-men' teh). Furiously.

Furious.

Strepitoso (It.) (streh-pee-to-so).

Stretta, Stretto (It.). "A throng." (1) Hurrying the time at the close. (2) In fugue, causing the voices to follow one another at less distance so that the subject and answer are brought closer together.

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