Other musical terms
alto – male alto or countertenor
aural training – ear training
bar – measure
choral society – glee club, community chorus
classical - classic
contralto – female alto singer
cor anglais – English horn
course director, lecturer – clinician
drum kit – drum set
forty-eight –well-tempered clavier
interval – intermission
lead – cue (noun), serve as concertmaster (verb)
motif - motive
national song – folk song
orchestra – [same]
orchestra leader – concertmaster, concertmistress
pause, hold – fermata
practical music – applied music
practice – practice (noun), practise (verb)
produce an opera – direct an opera
pupil – student
singing lessons – voice lessons
symphony orchestra – [same]
symphony orchestra , orchestra – symphony [alone]
technique - technic
turn over – turn pages, turn the page
Australian usage
‘clinician’ has a different meaning
‘concertmaster’ means leader of the orchestra, usually principal first violinist
‘measure’, ‘parallel minor’, ‘quarter note, ‘half note’ etc. are never used
‘student’, ‘ear training’ and ‘voice leading’ are used from time to time
‘well-tempered clavier’ is used more often than ‘forty-eight’
ANSORGE
Conrad Ansorge was born in Buchwald, near Loebau, Silesia, on 15 October 1862 and
died in Berlin on 13 February 1930. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and with
Liszt at Weimar in 1885-86. He toured Russia and Europe, and made his United States
début in 1887. He settled in Berlin, where he enjoyed a reputation as an interpreter of
Beethoven and Liszt, and taught at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatorium from
1895 to 1903. He taught at the German Academy of Music in Prague in the 1920s but ill-
health forced him to retire.