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A Picardy third, Picardy cadence (ˈpɪkərdi ) or, in French, tierce picarde is a harmonic device used in Western classical music. It refers to the use of a major chord of the tonic at the end of a musical section that is either modal or in a minor key. piatti Cymbals, generally meaning a pair of orchestral clashed cymbals piena
A commune in France that while it doesn't translate to anything, it sounds like the French slang word "baise" which means, well, "fuck". Bezons: A commune in France just outside of Paris. It's pronounced like the French word "baisons" which means "let's fuck". Białykał: A village in Poland that means "white feces". Bierbaum
"Kot" is an example of a common belgicism. A loan from Dutch meaning "shack", but with a French plural "s" (which humorously would translate as "puke" into Dutch).A belgicism (French: belgicisme) is a word, expression, or turn of phrase that is unique to or associated with Belgian French. [1]
Those numbers take on true meaning when you are one of the numbers. I am one of the numbers. My father is one of the numbers. My grandmother — one of those numbers — was humiliated by her ...
The dictionary, 252 pages in all, explained the meaning and gave the pronunciation of German, Italian, and other non-English words found in the terminology of classical music. At the end of the dictionary, immediately following the entry for zymbel (German for cymbal), Hughes added the following definition: [1] zzxjoanw (shaw). Maori. 1. Drum ...
out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means outraged (for a person) or exaggerated, extravagant, overdone (for a thing, esp. a praise, an actor's style of acting, etc.); in that second meaning, belongs to "literary" style. passé out of fashion. The correct expression in French is passé de mode. Passé means past, passed, or (for a ...
This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
Verlan (pronounced ⓘ) is a type of argot in the French language, featuring inversion of syllables in a word, and is common in slang and youth language. It rests on a long French tradition of transposing syllables of individual words to create slang words.