At 1:43 PM -0500 2/18/10, Aaron Sherber wrote:
Hi all,
I'm having a brain cramp. Is there an Italian
term which means the opposite of 'doppio
movimento'? That is, for a passage in which the
quarter note moves at the same speed as the
preceding half note?
The opposite of double time is half time, but I'm
not sure what that is in Italian. "Medio" means
middle, so that doesn't sound right. And "demi"
is French, not Italian.
OK, just realized that I had an Italian-English
dictionary on the shelf. "Half" has a bunch of
cognates, as I would have suspected: metà , mezzo
(or mezza), semi. Looks like "metà " is the
choice in many situations. The problem, of
course, is that even if it's correct, musicians
won't know what it means!
John
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John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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(mailto:john.how...@vt.edu)
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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of jazz musicians.
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