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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000035.txt from 2005/09

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] musical terms
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:34:11 -0400

Pochissimo is the superlative of little, while pochettino is the diminutive
of little. One means very very little, while the other asks of only a
"little" little. Smoky... No? In Spanish Pochettino would be poquito.
Herb

On 9/20/05 3:57 PM, "Jackie Kovach" <jl.kovach@-----.net> wrote:

>
> On Sep 20, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Miriam Williams wrote:
>
>> Help please - I've been searching for definitions to these terms
>> and could not find them;
>> Lagrimoso as in Largo lagrimoso (Ferling studies, no. 27)
>
> From the best book in the world, "A to Z of Foreign Musical Terms"
> by Christine Ammer, published byECS Publishing, Boston, MA.
>
> Lagrimoso is defined as " (Sp.) Same as LACRIMOSO", which is further
> defined, in another place, as "Mournful, tearful".
>
>>
>> pochettino as in Un pochettino tranquillo
>> (found in the fifth mvmnt of a suite for orchestra by Sibelius)
>
> This one was trickier! The book lists "pochissimo", which is pretty
> close, as "(It..) As little as possible"
>
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