1. Tenuto – Italian - Written over a note as ten or a small horizontal line, it means to hold the note for a little bit longer than its value

2. Ternary – A song that has 3 sections or movements: A,B,C

3. Terzetto – Italian – A vocal trio

4. Tessitura – Italian – The general range of a song (not including occasional high or low notes). Where the part lies in one’s voice.

5. Text – Words to which music is set

6. Tie – A curved line joining 2 notes of like pitch which are to be sounded as one note equal to their united time value.

7. Timbre – French – The tone quality of an instrument or voice

8. Tinto, con – Italian – With shading, expressively

9. Todesgesang – German – A dirge, a piece of music to commemorate the dead

10. Tone cluster – Several consecutive notes sung simultaneously

11. Tonic – The keynote of a scale. (Do)

12. Tonus peregrinus – Latin – literally means ‘wandering mode’. An excerpt of plainchant used in a choral work

13. Torch song – A highly emotional American ballad usually sung by a female who ‘carries a torch’ for an unresponsive male.

14. Tostamente – Italian – Rapidly and boldly.

15. Tostissimo – Italian – Extremely fast

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