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French to English Music Translation Glossary

French term		English translation
chantre ordinaire		singer / cantor in ordinary
chassé-croisé		carryings-on
chêne		oak	Gayle Wallimann
Entered by: Gayle Wallimann
check line		line check
cheviller un piano		repegging / repinning
clins d'oeil		a wink in the direction of
CNSM		CNSM (National Superior Conservatory of Music)
cocktail (musical)		potent (musical) mix
concerts des Enfoirés		Les Enfoirés concert
conduites projectives		innovative
conjuguent la musique à tous les temps		run through the whole musical gamut
contre-partition		riposte
cornet à bouquin		cornett
corps		a [human] body, two toms and a floor tom
corps sonore		sounding body
Croche		quaver (or eighth note in US English)	Marie-Pascale Wersinger
Entered by: Marie-Pascale Wersinger
croches en levée		introductory quavers
d'inspiration paysagiste		scenic inspiration/inspiration by scenery	Vicky Papaprodromou
Entered by: Vicky Papaprodromou
d'une part...d'autre part		Party of the first part, Party of the second part
dans le compas		in step with
dans un schéma très musical		in a very musical framework
décloisonnement		decompartmentalization
découpe des paroles		distribution of lyrics	EirTranslations
Entered by: EirTranslations
défoncer de nouveaux marchés		blasted our way into new markets	Wyley Powell
Entered by: Wyley Powell
déjantée couchée		unconventional / zany / off-the-wall folk-rock sound laid down on
détente		ease
de forme rondo		in rondo form
de la place		prominent, predominant, established
depositaire		guardian
des bases précises		precisely defined foundations
des durs à cuire		hard bop hardliners
des extraits de chorus, et de relevés de partitions sur des grilles classiques		extracts from choruses, transcriptions of scores with conventional notation
des partitions où la structure harmonique est définie		scores where the harmonic structure is clearly defined	Florence Bremond
Entered by: Florence Bremond
diffusion		diffusion/public performance/broadcasting	Yvonne Gallagher
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher
disque thématique		production music disc
donne à voir		displays; shows; exhibits
droit d'éxécution publique		right of public performance
Du creux de toi c'est bien le mal qui dresse tes silences.		From deep inside, it's the hurt which forges your silences
d\'en changer d\'un passage à l\'autre		interchangeable from one passage to the next	Franco Rigoni
Entered by: Franco Rigoni
Ecole Nationale de Musique de Kiev		Kiev National Conservatory	Gayle Wallimann
Entered by: Gayle Wallimann

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