#21 MUSICAL TERMS

1. Sognando - Italian - Dreamily

2. Solfeggio -  Italian - A vocal exercise on solfege syllables (Do, re, mi...)

3. Somma -  Italian - Utmost, highest, greatest extreme.  Ex: com somma espressione means with intense feeling

4. Sommesso -  Italian - Subdued, solemn

5. Sonata -  Italian - An instrumental composition in 3 or 4 movements contrasting in theme, tempo and mood.  (usually for one instrument)

6.  Sordamente -  Italian - With a veiled, muffled tone

7.  Sospirando -  Italian - Sobbing, sighing, catching the breath

8.  Sotto voce -  Italian - Sing under the normal volume of the voice - half voice

9.  Soutenu - French - Held or sustained

10.  Spianato -  Italian - Smooth, tranquil, even

11.  Spinto -  Italian - Intense.  Applied to a high voice in expressive, emotional opera parts

12.  Spiritual - A religious song cultivated by slaves of the South

13.  Sprechstimme - German - Literally "speaking voice".  Inflected spoken singing with pitches indicated approximately on the music staff (usually with x's)

14.  Staccato - Italian - Detached, separated.  Written as a dot above or below the head of a note

15.  Starker - German - Louder, stronger

Schirmer Pocket Manual of Musical Terms, Edited by Theodore Baker, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1978