MINI GLOSSÁRIO MUSICAL – INGLÊS/PORTUGUÊS
. SCORE: partitura: AN ORCHESTRAL SCORE
. BEAT = RHYTHM: rítmo (adj. HIGH//LOW PITCHED)
. HARMONY: harmonia
. MELODY: melodia
. LYRICS = WORDS: letra de música
MUSICAL GROUPS
. ORCHESTRA
- CONDUCTOR / TO CONDUCT: maestro
- BATON: batuta
. ENSEMBLE: conjunto de dois ou mais músicos que tocam música vocal ou instrumental; na música clássica: trios ou quartetos; JAZZ ENSEMBLES / ROCK ENSEMBLES
. BRASS BAND: banda de instrumentos de metal; fanfarra
STRINGED INSTRUMENTS (CORDAS)
. VIOLIN / VIOLINIST
. VIOLA / VIOLA PLAYER
. CELLO / CELLIST
. DOUBLE BASS / DOUBLE BASSIST: contrabaixo
. GUITAR / GUITARIST
. HARP / HARPIST
. BOW: arco
. STRING: corda
WOODWIND INSTRUMENTS (SOPROS E MADEIRAS)
. OBOE / OBOIST
. CLARINET / CLARINETIST
. FLUTE / FLAUTIST = FLUTIST: flauta transversal
. RECORDER / RECORDER PLAYER: flauta doce
. BASSOON / BASSOONIST: fagote
. SAXOPHONE / SAXOPHONIST
BRASS INSTRUMENTS (SOPRO METAL)
. TRUMPET / TRUMPETER: trompete
. TROMBONE / TROMBONIST
. FRENCH HORN / FRENC HORN PLAYER: trompa
. TUBA / TUBA PLAYER
PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS (PERCUSSÃO)
. PERCUSSIONIST
. TIMPANI (abrev.TIMPS) / TIMPANIST: tímbalo, tímpano
. DRUM / DRUMMER: tambor
. CYMBALS / CYMBALIST: címbalo, pratos
. XYLOPHONE / XYLOPHONE PLAYER
KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS (TECLADO)
. PIANO / PIANIST *
- GRAND PIANO = PIANOFORTE: piano de cauda
- UPRIGHT PIANO: piano de armário
. ORGAN / ORGANIST
. KEY: tecla
. KEYBOARD: teclado
. PEDALS: pedais
(*) em jazz: PIANO PLAYER
VOCAL MUSIC
. TO SING / SANG / SUNG // SINGER
We sang The Messiah.
TO SING UNACCOMPANIED: sem acompanhamento
. CHOIR:
VOICES
. SOPRANO (pl.SOPRANOS)
. TENOR
. BARITONE
. BASS / BASS VOICE
. ALTO (pl.ALTOS)
. COUNTERTENOR: tenorino
. OPERA / OPERA SINGER
. OPERATIC / OPERATIC CAREER: operístico
MUSICAL EVENTS
. CONCERT
. MUSICAL: operetta, comédia musical
. GIG (informal): apresentação de música pop
. RECITAL
MUSICAL PIECES (OBRAS)
. TO COMPOSE / COMPOSER / COMPOSITION
. SYMPHONY
. CONCERTO (pl.CONCERTOS / CONCERTI)
. OVERTURE: abertura
. SONG: canção
. PIECE: palavra genérica para composição musical
. TO LISTEN TO MUSIC / TO CLASSICAL MUSIC
. PEOPLE SING MUSIC OR PLAY ON INSTRUMENTS
. A PIECE OF MUSIC
. TO WRITE MUSIC
. TO STUDY MUSIC
. A CAREER IN MUSIC
. TO HAVE / TAKE MUSIC LESSONS
. TO PLAY THE PIANO
. TO PLAY BRAHMS
. ORCHESTRAL PLAYERS: músicos da orquestra
. TO READ MUSIC = TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNS: ler uma partitura
. IT´S MUSIC TO MY EARS!: Isso é maravilhoso! (expressão idiomática)
. TO ACCOMPANY: acompanhar / ACCOMPANIMENT / ACCOMPANIST
. SOLO (pl.SOLOS): A VIOLINIST SOLO (solo de violino)
- SOLOIST: solista – THE PIANO SOLOIST
. DUET: dueto
. DUO (pl.DUOS): A PIANO DUO
. TRIO (pl.TRIOS)
. QUARTET / A STRING QUARTET
. INSTRUMENT / MUSICAL INSTRUMENT / INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
. HE PLAYED THE TRUMPET IN A JAZZ BAND.
. SHE DECIDED TO TAKE UP THE FLUTE: start learning to play the flute
. SHE TEACHES VIOLIN, CELLO AND PIANO: não se usa o artigo “the” quando mencionamos dois ou mais instrumentos
. THE CD FEATURES James Galway ON THE FLUTE: O CD apresenta James Galway à flauta.
. SHE SANG AND HE ACCOMPANIED HER ON THE PIANO.
. John Squire ON GUITAR: sem o artigo “the”
. Miles Davis PLAYED TRUMPET: sem o artigo “the”
. She is going to DO HER CELLO PRACTICE: estudar cello
. Music is COMPOSED or WRITTEN FOR an instrument. In a PIECE OF MUSIC WRITTEN FOR a GROUP OF INSTRUMENTS, each has a different PART to play: there are PARTS FOR oboe, piano and bassoon.
. If there is more than one part for the same type of instrument, the terms FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, etc., are used: She´s A SECOND VIOLIN = plays the second VIOLIN PART.
SYMPHONY ORQUESTRA : orquestra sinfônica
. PRINCIPAL: who plays the most important part
. DEPUTY PRINCIPAL (British) = ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL (American)
. ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
- She became PRINCIPAL CELLIST within a few years.
. LEADER (Bristish) = CONCERTMASTER (American): primeiro violino (who leads the orchestra) “spalla”
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA : orquestra filarmônica
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA : orquestra de câmara
MUSICAL NOTES / NOTES (NOTAS/FIGURAS MUSICAIS)
. BREVE = BREVIS (British) // DOUBLE-WHOLE NOTE (American): breve
. SEMIBREVE (British) // WHOLE NOTE (American): semibreve
. MINIM (British) // HALF NOTE (American): mínima
. CROTCHET (British) // QUARTER NOTE (American): colcheia
. QUAVER (British) // EIGHT NOTE (American): semicolcheia
. SEMIQUAVER (British) // SIXTEENTH NOTE (American): fusa
. DEMISEMIQUAVER (British) // THIRTY-SECOND NOTE (American): semifusa
. HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER (British) // SIXTY-FOURTH NOTE (American): quartifusa
RESTS (PAUSAS)
- breve rest; semibreve rest …
TIME - TIME SIGNATURE, MEASURE (British) //METER (American) (FÓRMULA DE COMPASSO)
- two-eight time
- two-four time
- two-two time
- four-eight time
- four-four time (common time)
- four-two time
- six-eight time
- six-four time
- three-eight time
- three-four time
- three-two time
- nine-eight time
- nine-four time
- five-four time
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. BAR / BAR LINE: barra de compasso
. STAFF / STAVE: pentagrama, pauta musical
Line of the staff: linhas
Space of the staff: espaço
. SCALES: escalas
C major scale naturals: c, d, e, f, g, a, b, c
A minor scale (natural) naturals: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, a
A minor scale (harmonic)
A minor scale (melodic)
Chromatic scale
. ACCIDENTALS: inflections, key signatures:
- Signs indicating the raising of a note:
Sharp: raising the note a semitone or half-step
Double sharp: raising the note a tone or full-step
- Signs indicating the lowering of a note:
Flat: lowering the note a semitone or half-step
Double flat: lowering the note a tone or full-step
- Natural: bequadro
. KEYS: modo / MAJOR or MINOR
. CLEFS: claves
- Treble clef: G-clef, violin clef (clave de sol)
- Bass clef: F-clef (clave de fá)
- Alto-clef: C-clef (clave de dó)
. CHORD: acorde
- Triad
- Major triad
- Minor triad
- Diminished triad
- Augmented triad
- Chord of four notes, a chord of the seventh (seventh chord, dominant chord)
. INTERVALS: intervalos
- Unison (unison interval)
- Major second
- Major third
- Perfect fourth
- Perfect third
- Major sixth
- Major seventh
- Perfect octave
. ORNAMENTS: ornamentos / GRACES, GRACE NOTES
- Long appoggiatura
- Accaciatura (short appoggiatura)
- Slide - portamento
- Trill (shake) without turn
- Trill (shake) with turn
- Upper mordent (inverted mordent, pralltriller)
- Lower mordent (mordent)
- Turn - grupeto
- Arpeggio
- Triplet: duplet (couplet), quadruplet , quintuplet, sextolet (sextuplet), septolet (septuplet, septimole)
- Tie (bind) - ligadura
- Pause (pause sign)
- Repeat mark.