Musical Terms Translations

This is an attempt at providing a translation of musical terms names in the most used languages to express them (in classical works at least, but feel free to add columns) (translations taken from Wikipedia's "other languages" section). Very useful when trying to be consistent, some sleeves are not (unappropriate use of movement type name, mix of different languages...).

english	french	german	italian	swedish	japanese
Classical
choral
Chorale	choral	Chorale	corale		コラール
Aria	aria	Arie	aria	aria	アリア
Recitative	récitatif	Rezitativ	recitativo		レチタティーヴォ
Non-classical
Bridge	pont	Zwischenspiel		brygga
To be completed...

Interesting links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Musical_terminology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Musical_forms
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Vocal_music

Comments

I removed recitativo from the french column because as the wikipedia page explains, recitativo is not french. --davitof

• I agree that I've always seen récitatif in french. Yet, on french WP, récitatif redirects to recitativo and not the reverse; --MLL

We should mention the plurals (especially for german) --davitof

• Agreed --MLL

We should better define the scope of this - there's no need to provide translations of all musical terminology - just those words that are common in album or track titles and thus may need to be entered in MB. @alex