#7 MUSICAL TERMS

1. Fine - Italian - The End of a piece of music

2. First - The highest voice of the same class. (i.e. First Soprano, First Alto, etc.)

3. Flat – b - The accidental that lowers a pitch 1 half step.

            Flat – adjective – A pitch that is too low.

4. Flebile - Italian - Tearful, mournful

5. Forte - Dynamic term for loud

6. Fortissimo - Extremely loud

7. Forzando - Italian - With force, energy; means that the note is to be strongly accented; usually fz

8. French Overture - A type of overture developed in France in the 18th century, consisting of 3 sections: 1st is slow in tempo, 2nd is rather quick, 3rd is slow again.

9. Fret - One of the narrow ridges of wood, metal or ivory crossing the fingerboard of a guitar, mandolin, etc. on which the strings are 'stopped'.

10. Freudig - German - Joyously

11. Frohlich - German - Joyously

12. Frottola - Italian - A type of choral madrigal popular in Italy in the 16th century.

13. Fruhlingslied - German - Spring song.

14. Fugue - A theme proposed by one part being taken up successively by all participating parts, thus bringing each part into prominence - The other parts will sing the fugue, tthen a countermelody

15. Funebre - French - Funereal, mournful, dirge-like

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