Spanish Music Terms
If anyone has any music terms that they want to know in Spanish I should be able to help. I am going to a music conservatory in Ecuador so I have learned a lot of the terms. I know them better in Spanish than I do English X) (I know this isn't a question but the terms are hard to find so I thought I'd post this)
2 Answers
Hello Sorze,
Yes, it's very kind of you to offer. May I suggest that you post a list of the most commonly used musical terms, eg: treble, bass, melody, harmony and rhythm etc...in a post here so that people can refer to them whenever they need to do so.
SpanishSkype also regularly submits valuable posts about Spanish from her teaching website but you have a specific knowledge of technical terms that few people here may know in Spanish so please feel free to share them! 
I am also a musician and play the piano as my job but I play by ear. 
OK, well "redonda" is whole note. "Blanca" is half note. "Negra" is quarter note. "Corchea" is 1/8 note. "Semicorchea" is 1/16 note. "Fusa" is 1/32 note. And "semifusa" is 1/64 note. "Compás" is one stave (I'm pretty sure that's what it's called. Sorry, I know the terms better in Spanish than in English). "Armadura" is the key signature. "Sostenido" is a sharp. "Bemol" is a flat. "Becuadro" is a natural (the one that cancels the sharps and flats). "Doble sostenido" is a double sharp. "Doble bemol" is a double flat. "Clave de Sol" is the treble clef. "Clave de Fa" is the bass clef. "Clave de Do" is the C clef (don't know what this one is called either). "Crescendo" is the same. "Decrescendo" is diminuendo. "Forte", "mezzo forte", "piano" and all of those are all the same. "Menor" is minor. "Mayor" is major. "Armonica" is harmonic. "Melodica" is melodic. The notes here go "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si, Do". For rests just add "pausa/silencio de" before the time you want (so like "pausa de corchea"). "Pentagrama" is the pentagram (I don't know if that's right either. It's one line on a sheet of music). "Calderón" is the sign that you put over a note so that you can hold it as long as you want.
Sorry I'm so bad with the English names. If there is anything else anyone can think of that they want to know I can look through my notes again or ask one of the teachers and I'll post it.
