Feature Suggestion: Orchestral Music Term Dictionary to translate

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Feature Suggestion: Orchestral Music Term Dictionary to look up common used Italian/German/French language.

For example, when typing in “Adante con moto”, it tells the Adante q=80, and “con mono” means “with movement” or “in a spirited manner”. Even the “con moto” cannot been automatically converted to tempo modulation now in dorico, it at least tells the composer/learner the meaning.

When typing the Cl., it tells on possible meaning clarinet.

This feature is user-friendly for music students, and students are the largest group of potential users for such software.

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Thanks for the suggestion, Peter. Adding a full concordance for musical terms in multiple languages isn’t a small job, but I can certainly see the potential value in it. In the meantime, you might find online resources like this helpful, perhaps.

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Or Clavichord, or Claves?

Except q=80 might not be Andante if your basic beat is a quaver or a minim.

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Then change it in the Properties panel.

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That is precisely not the point!

The OP presumption is that Andante q=80 is somehow a definitive norm, which it is not.

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So the Traditional descriptions should be offered with no M.M. markings because the time signature denominators might vary? That seems an unwieldy expectation. Not everything needs to be automatic.

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I’m not asking for automation, just respect for the musical terms. I’d happily lose the entire Absolute Tempo menu - there’s hardly an entry I agree with!

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