Composition

• allegro

  A musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively mann...

• allegretto

  A musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo...

• andante

  A musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow.

• largo

  (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner.

• adagio

  (music) a composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully); "they played the adagio...

Also contains

• phrase

  A short musical passage.

• recitative

  A vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of spe...

• cadence

  The close of a musical section.

• cadenza

  A brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music.

• modulation

  A musical passage moving from one key to another.

• impromptu

  A short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance pr...

• intro

  A brief introductory passage to a piece of popular music.