New Musical Terms
From the "Stickwire" (Chapman Stick) mailinglist, originally by Tom Hurd on piano-teachers@yahoo.com)

In order to keep you abreast of the ever-developing world of musical terminology, we provide herewith the latest additions to the esteemed Harvard Dictionary of Music:

• Allregretto: When you're 16 measures into the piece and realize you took too fast a tempo.
  
  
• Angus Dei: To play with a divinely beefy tone.
  
  
• A Patella: Accompanied by knee-slapping.
  
  
• Appologgiatura: A composition that you regret playing.
  
  
• Approximatura: A series of notes not intended by the composer, yet played with an "I meant to do that" attitude.
  
  
• Approximento: A musical entrance that is somewhere in the vicinity of the correct pitch.
  
  
• Cacophany: A composition incorporating many people with chest colds.
  
  
• Coral Symphony: A large, multi-movement work from Beethoven's Caribbean Period.
  
  
• Dill Piccolini: An exceedingly small wind instrument that plays only sour notes.
  
  
• Fermantra: A note held over and over and over and over and...
  
  
• Fermoota: A note of dubious value held for indefinite length.
  
  
• Fiddler Crabs: Grumpy string players.
  
  
• Flute Flies: Those tiny mosquitos that bother musicians on outdoor gigs.
  
  
• Frugalhorn: A sensible and inexpensive brass instrument.
  
  
• Gaul Blatter: A French horn player.
  
  
• Gregorian Champ: The title bestowed upon the monk who can hold a note the longest.
  
  
• Ground hog: Someone who takes control of the repeated bass line and won't let anyone else play it.
  
  
• Placebo Domingo: A faux tenor.
  
  
• Schmalzando: A sudden burst of music from the Guy Lombardo band.
  
  
• The Right Of Strings: Manifesto of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Violists.
  
  
• Spritzicato: An indication to string instruments to produce a bright and bubbly sound.
  
  
• Tempo Tantrum: What an elementary school orchestra is having when it's not following the conductor.
  
  
• Trouble Clef: Any clef one can't read: e.g., alto clef for pianists.
  
  
• Vesuvioso: An indication to build up to a fiery conclusion.
  
  
• Vibratto: Child prodigy son of the concertmaster.