Alcapone: Percussion with a baseball bat.
Aldente: Signal to the soloist to just noodle a bit while the rest of the orchestra takes a breather.
Allego: Just put the pieces together.
Alpacino: Chorus: take a deep double exhalation similar to ‘Hoo ha!’
Cappuccino: Play this quickly so we can break for coffee.
Capricioussimo: I’m just changing the entire mood and temp here because I’m the composer and I can, so keep up.
Commando: Without inhibitions. Like you’re not wearing undies.
Con biro: the composer made some hasty corrections to the score here with a ball-point pen.
Egotismma: Extend the solo like there aren’t several dozen other musicians on the stage.
Fortyssimo: Yes, you once dreamt of being the soloist, but here you are, middle-aged, sixth violin with no hope of making even fifth, so just crank it out, dammit.
Glitzando: Make it sound like the theme song of a celebrity reality show.
Louisvuittoni: Sing this note with repressed emotion. Like, emotional baggage.
Mezzanino: This part is designed to please the people in the cheap nosebleed seats.
Namotissimo: Play the same note repeatedly in a grandiose way.
Pizzacato: Violins: play using the fingers like how you steal the pepperoni from someone else’s slice.
Simpere: Coyly.
Tuttifrutti: Trumpets: dream of candied fruit.
Vibratoro: Take matters into your own hands.
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