I, it - the.
idiom - style appropriate to a specific medium, its capacities and limitations. Also used to mean style in general.
il piu - the most.
im - in the.
imitando - imitating.
imitation - a theme or melody which appears consecutively in different parts in contrapuntal texture.
impaziente - impatient, hurried.
imperioso - pompous.
impetuoso - vehement.
imponente - haughtily.
impromptu - a piece that suggests improvisation, that has a feeling of informality. First used in the early nineteenth century.
improvisation - to create music extemporaneously. Also applies to unindicated ornamentation and to realization of a figured bass.
in - in, in the.
incalzando - with growing warmth.
inconsolato - in a mournful style.
inquieto - restless, uneasy.
instantemente - urgently.
instrumentation - the instruments indicated in an orchestral score.
intermezzo - an interlude, a piece designed originally to be performed between the acts of a play or opera.
interval - the pitch distance between two tones, designated numerically as seconds, thirds, fourths, and so on.
intimo - expressive.
intrata (intrada) - the name given to an opening piece of march-like character. The Italian equivalent of an Entrée or Prelude.
intrepidamente - boldly.
invention - a short contrapuntal piece for two or three voices, in imitative style.
inversion - in melody, the interval-for-interval progression in the opposite direction, up for down and vice versa. In harmony, the root of a chord in some part other than the bass, e.g., first inversion (third of the chord in the bass), second inversion (fifth of the chord in the bass).
invertible counterpoint - counterpoint so designed that either of two melodic lines may be the upper.
irato - angrily.
ironico - ironical.
irresoluto - wavering.
istesso - the same.
istesso tempo - the same time.
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