Why Become a member of a Junior or Youth Orchestra?

• 1. Offers an orchestra experience beyond what is in your school
• 2. Offers an orchestra experience for students who have no school orchestra
• 3. serves as a preparatory orchestra for adult orchestras
• 4. provides an opportunity to play a large quantity of rather difficult music by master composers
• 5. provides the opportunity to rehearse and perform with other outstanding musicians of similar age from a wide geographical area
• 6. provides the opportunity to learn the discipline of playing together with precision following a conductor
• 7. provides an additional opportunity to advance your individual musical skills
• 8. provides the opportunity for just plain musicial and social enjoyment

• Aperto - open (string or bass)
• Arco - bow
• Arco in giu - downbow
• a 2 - by two or both players
• a 3, etc. - by three or more players
• Attacca - begin the next or begin here
• Bacchetta - stick (drum)
• Bis (Biz) - twice (repeat)
• Chiuso - closed, stopped (brass)
• Colle Voce _ with the voice accompaniment
• Colpo di Lingua - tonguing
• Con la bacchetta - with drumstick
• Con la mazza - with bass drumstick
• Con sordina - with mute
• Corda- string
• Divisi - divided parts
• Fiati- woodwonds
• Imboccatura - mouthpiece
• Leggio - desk
• Lunga pausa - long pause (hold or long period of silence)
• Maestro di capella - conductor
• Meta - the half (of a section)
• Mezza voce - half voice, subduded tones
• Muta - change (pitch, viz. of tympani, brasses or from flute to piccolo)
• Orchestra - orchestra
• Parto - orchestra part
• Partitura - a full score
• Ponticello - near the bridge ( bow)
• Portando - slow glissando (string or trombone)
• Posizione - position (string or trombone)
• Sempre - always
• Senza sordino - without mute
• Stromenti a fiato di logno - woodwind instruments
• Stromenti da corda - string instruments
• Stromenti a fiato d'ottone - brass instruments
• Stromenti da fiati - wind instruments
• Stromenti pulsatilia - percussion instruments
• subito - suddenly, quick, F subito P
• sulla tastiera - on the fingerboard or near the fingerboard (string)
• sul tasto - the same as above
• tutta forza - with full force
• tutti - together or all together (all instruments playing)
• un, una, uno, a, an - one
• una corde - one string, such as the a, or 1 string player only
• unati - united together
• via sordina - remove mute (strings or brasses)
• violine principale - leader of strings
• V.S. (Volto Subito) - turn over (the page) quickly
• poco - a little
• piu - more
• meno - less
• con - with
• il piu - the most
• ma non - but not
• molto - much
• issimo - most
• ietto - less
• leggiero - lightly
• pf - piu forte