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Music Terminologies (Part 4)

 

arpeggio: - "Ain't he that storybook kid with the big nose that grows?"
broken consort: - when someone in the ensemble has to leave to go to the bathroom.
metronome: - a city-dwelling dwarf.
minnesinger: - a boy soprano.
neumatic melishma: - a bronchial disorder caused by hockets.
neums: - renaissance midgets.
ordo: - the hero in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
recitative: - a disease that Monteverdi had.
ritornello: - a Verdi opera.
sine proprietate: - cussing in church.
slur: - as opposed to madam.
staccato: - how you did all the ceilings in your mobile home.
supertonic: - Schweppes.
transsectional: - an alto who moves to the soprano section.
trotto: - an early Italian form of Montezuma's Revenge.
tuba: - a compound word: "Hey, woman! Fetch me another tuba Bryll Cream!"

 

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