Part 12 (1/2)

_Dolente_ } _Doloroso_ } plaintively or sorrowfully.

_Espressivo_--expressively.

_Grandioso_--grandly, pompously.

_Grazioso_--gracefully.

_Giocoso_--humorously, (cf. jocose).

_Giojoso_--joyfully, (cf. joyous).

_Lacrimando_, _lacrimoso_--sorrowfully.

_Legato_--smoothly.

_Leggiero_--lightly.

_Leggierissimo_--most lightly; almost a staccato.

_Lusingando_--caressingly, coaxingly, tenderly.

_Maesta_, _maestoso_--majestically.

_Martellando_, _martellato_--strongly accented, (lit.--hammered).

_Marziale_--martial--war-like.

_Mesto_--pensively.

_Mezzo voce_--with half voice.

_Misterioso_--mysteriously.

_Parlando_--well accented or enunciated; applied to melody playing. (The word parlando means literally-speaking.)

_Pastorale_--in simple and unaffected style, (lit.--pastoral, rural).

_Pomposo_--pompously.

_Precipitoso_--precipitously.

_Recitativo_--well enunciated. (This meaning applies only in instrumental music in which a melody is to stand out above the accompaniment. For def. of recitative in vocal music, see p.

78.)

_Risoluto_--firmly, resolutely.

_Scherzando_, _scherzoso_, etc.--jokingly. These terms are derived from the word _scherzo_ meaning _a musical joke_.