Friday, April 09, 2010

Vocabulary

Today, I went to a rehearsal of the orchestra. There a trainer, a violinist who will play solo on the next concert with the violin concerto of Mendelssohn, used many technichal terms that classical music player uses.

Classical music player uses mostly Italian, such as "poco a poco" and "andante". But they also use Germany for calling notes or scales, such as Es dur for E flat major. Also, the chart I'm playing now is arranged by Ravel, so the chart is all written in French, actually French is not popular for classical charts.
Anyway, it is very interesting that many Japanese classical music player uses both Germany and Italian..

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